A Fire in the Kitchen: The Autobiography of a Cook
Florence White
Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1938
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A smart first edition of this biography of English food writer Florence White. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece. The autobiography of Florence White, an English food writer, the daughter of Richard White and Harriet Jane Thirkell. She established the English Folk Cookery Association in 1928 and published books on cookery and other domestic subjects; her cookery book Good Things in England (1932) remains in print to this day. White noted that "there was never a happier, lovelier home as long as [Mother] was alive. The love she was so rich in not only made the fire in the kitchen, but warmed all our hearts." In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small handling mark. Very Good Indeed. Seller Inventory # 960T76
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Title: A Fire in the Kitchen: The Autobiography of ...
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London
Publication Date: 1938
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: Not Stated
Condition: Very Good Indeed
Edition: First edition.
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A Fire in the Kitchen. The Autobiography of a Cook.
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London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1939, 1939
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First Edition
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
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First "cheap" edition, published one year after the first edition from the same sheets, with a cancel title and imprint. White founded the English Folk Cookery Association in 1928 and the Good Food Register in 1935. A childhood of poverty forced White to develop a simple and economic approach to cooking. She nurtured an interest in the history of cookery and cherished simple, seasonal, local fare. It wasn't until she neared her 60s that White seriously began researching and writing about food. Her publications appeared in The Times, The Spectator, and The Edinburgh Review, and were followed by several books; A Fire in the Kitchen was the last published in her lifetime. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece after a photograph by Howard Coster. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge green. With dust jacket. Spine ends just bumped, foxing to edges and a few leaves, slight ripple to portrait frontispiece; jacket clipped twice, spine faded, edges creased with a few nicks. Seller Inventory # 89876
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A Fire in the Kitchen: The Autobiography of a Cook
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J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd 1938, London, 1938
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Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. xi, 340 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, uncommon in the jacket which is unclipped. Some damage and wear to the extremities of jacket and boards. Pencil note to endpaper, light foxing to prelims, otherwise clean. Some sections a little sprung. Portrait frontis. This work also covers food writer's White's establishment of the English Folk Cookery Assocation in 1928. 8vo. Seller Inventory # 73027
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A Fire In The Kitchen : The Autobiography Of A Cook
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Dent. London, 1938
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Dent, London in 1938. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. Very light pushing at the extreme spine ends. Gilt titling to the spine with the publisher's blind stamped details to the lower spine as issued. Some toning to the text-block and outer page edges due to the quality of the paper stock used. Some spotting to the prelims and light offsetting to the blank end-papers. Free from inscriptions. The scarce WRAPPER is neatly price-clipped and is in Very Good+ condition. A little nibbling to the upper spine tip. Some fading of the red colouring to the spine. The wrapper remains very striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. Florence White was the founder of the English Folk Cookery Association. Born in 1863, White's somewhat unhappy childhood, shopping 'economically for food (since the family was by then poor), waiting on her uncongenial stepmother, and teaching the three small children of her father's third marriage' (ODNB), was relieved when she was sent to Fareham 'to nurse her father's two elderly sisters, formerly proprietors of the Lion Hotel and Assembly Rooms. From them, as she later described in her autobiography, she learned that 'good epicurean country-house cookery which had been handed down the family from mother to daughter since the days of Queen Elizabeth'. Her return to Fareham towards the end of her life, when she opened a cookery school there, was directly inspired by her memories of learning traditional English cooking techniques, an accomplishment of which she never ceased to be proud'. Only when in her sixties 'living in frugal semi-retirement in a Chelsea basement room' supported by freelance journalism, did Florence formally begin to research her lifelong passion, good, traditional English food. In 1928 she founded the English Folk Cookery Association, and in 1932 published 'Good Things in England', her manifesto, as well as editing the first of the association's Good Food Registers, which contained information passed on by contributors about towns, villages, hotels, restaurants, or even humble guest houses in which good English cooking or foodstuffs could be found. This the author's autobiography, is a very scarce copy more-so with the wrapper present. Collectible. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Seller Inventory # ABE-1610726334138
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