The Tenth Muse
Sir Harry Luke
Published by Putnam, 1954
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Hardcover
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1954. First Published. 240 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth covered boards with gilt. Flat signed by author to title page. Ex Libris plate of Sir Ronald Hibbert Cross to front paste down. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped jacket has heavy edge-wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Seller Inventory # 1724321154ABS
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Tenth Muse
Publisher: Putnam
Publication Date: 1954
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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The Tenth Muse: Gourmets Compendium book by Sir Harry Luke
Seller: West Cove UK, Wellington, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Softcover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> In the year 1905 three young men, two of them just down from Oxford, were lying in the heather on the sunny brow of one of the Brecon Beacons. The two graduates were Harry Pirie-Gordon,? whose parents lived at nearby Crickhowell, and his friend Harry Luke. The third was an older man of somewhat sinister aspect called Frederick William Rolfe, also known as Baron Corvo. Resting from the exertion of climbing the hill this - probably hungry - triumvirate were amusing themselves by inventing imagin- ary savouries. "On a slice of Bath Chap", declaimed the orotund Pirie- Gordon, "trimmed to fit a disc of fried bread of the size of half a crown, lay a mushroom baked in milk as a base for a piece of cold grouse as large as a thumbnail and a quarter of an inch thick." "But", objected Corvo, with his penchant for recondite words, "the mushroom must be isomegethic? with the disc and five drops of lemon-juice should be squeezed upon the grouse just before serving." Now it was Luke's turn to a. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM389-G-9167
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The Tenth Muse - an unconventional cookery book of recipes from many lands. Collected and compiled, with an introductory chapter by Sir Harry Luke. with the collaboration of Elizabeth Godfrey
Published by
Putnam, London, 1954
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Mike Park Ltd, London, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. With a colour frontispice of a still-life, and with chapter headings and decorations by William McLaren, octavo, pp 240, very clean internally, green cloth very slightly marked, the spine slightly faded. Seller Inventory # 021047
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The Tenth Muse: An unconventional cookery book of recipes from many lands [Hardcover] Luke, Sir Harry (compiler and introductory chapter by); Godfrey, Elizabeth; decorations by William McLaren and McLaren, William
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Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. Jacket is in poor condition with nicks, tears & creasing to the edges. Tanned, marked & worn with faded spine. Worn board edges & corners. Tanned & marked textblock edge. Creased page corners. Content is in good condition. Seller Inventory # 000361-02-05-2024-LMC
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The Tenth Muse: An Unconventional Cookery Book of Recipes from Many Lands. Collected and Compiled with an Introductory Chapter by Sir Harry Luke
Published by
Putnam, London, UK, 1954
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrated by William McLaren (illustrator). First Edition - 10th Print Run. 240 pages. B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Darkish green with some areas of damp blanching to bottom right area of front night and back board larger area to left-hand bottom half area. Light/moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Page-edges moderately browned o/w pages clean. Seller Inventory # 071459
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The Tenth Muse: An Unconventional Cookery Book of Recipes from Many Lands
Published by
Putnam, 1962
Used
Hardcover
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good. 1962. Second, enlarged edition. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions and small label to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Seller Inventory # 1720168093MEP
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the Tenth Muse : An unconventional cookery book of recipes from many lands
Published by
Putnam, London, 1954
Used
Hardcover
Seller: cookbookjj, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First. GOOD head & tail of spine bumped/ edge-chipped dj. Seller Inventory # MAIN040963I
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The Tenth Muse. An Unconventional Cookery Book of Recipes from Many Lands. Collected and Compiled, with an Introductory Chapter
Published by
Putnam, London, 1962
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Hardcover
Seller: Hayden & Fandetta Rare Books ABAA/ILAB, Horseshoe Bay, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. Decorations by William McLaren. Second, enlarged edition. 288pp, index. Lawn green boards with gilt spine lettering, price clipped illustrated dustwrapper. Pages lightly toned. "Even if you don't really care for caraway seed and are shy of iguana steaks, you will certainly enjoy reading about them." With 400 recipes from around the world. Text block gently toned; spine of jacket minimally toned and with a few short closed tears and a little rubbing. dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # 000202
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THE TENTH MUSE
Published by
Putnam, London, 1954
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. Uncommon cuisine title in original dustjacket with painterly pictorial by William Maclaren. Gift inscription dated 1978 in calliogrpagic script ffe. Dustjacket price-slipped with some professional internal repair. Still, highly presentable. Seller Inventory # 011462
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The Tenth Muse
Published by
Richard Clay and Company, 1954
Used
Hardcover
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. LUKE, Sir Harry [240] pp. Richard Clay and Company 1954 8.75" x 5.75" The jacket design by and the decorations in the text are by William Maclaren. Seller Inventory # 32915
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