31, [1] pages. Light cover wear; spine sunned; staples rusted but secure. Red pencil "4-" top right first leaf, else unmarked. Complete with 16 leaves - not the 35/40/60 pp issue. 6 x 3.2 inches. View More...
36 pages. Light creasing to wraps; spine rubbed; the word/name Day in pencil to elephant's rear. Tideline and associated ripple along top edge (most evident is shown in photo). Staples firm and not rusted. The price list at rear is for the province of Nova Scotia. 7 x 4.5 inches. View More...
72 pages. First impression of the New Revised Edition: August, 1913. Boards soiled, and gilt faded. Faint tideline along gutter throughout, and basic pencil marginalia throughout. Offsetting from newspaper clipping (not present) on pages 38/39. Binding is sound. View More...
xii, 296 pages. "The love of Wine may almost be classed with the innate principles of our very being" [p.1]. Contemporary half leather (extremities rubbed), with feathered paper over boards. Gilt and raised bands to spine; all edges sprinkled. Armorial bookplate of Alexander Speirs, Elderslie, to front pastedown. Offsetting to corners of first few and final few leaves; foxing to front endpapers. A small presentable volume soundly bound. View More...
186 pages, but lacking A4 [i.e. lacking the third leaf of text: pages 7,8]. Measures 5.8 x 3.6 inches. No free endpapers; title page chipped at fore-edge and splitting along gutter [all text present]. Front board secure; rear board all but detached; half of spine panel gone; textblock sound. Of this first edition: one copy at the National Library of Scotland; and one auction record [Dominic, 2012]. Scarce. Title continues: with their several Sauces and Sallads. And making all sorts of Pickles. Also making Variety of pies, Pasties, Tarts, Cheese-Cakes, Custards, Creams, &c. With the Art of Pres... View More...
188 pages, and 4 pages of ads at rear. Jacket chipped and creased, with $1.00 price on flap - now presenting quite well in a removable archival sleeve though still a considerable chunk off the spine. A couple nicks to cloth; top edge a touch dusty. Contents clean and unmarked, in sound binding. View More...
Unpaged. Covers and edges rubbed, spine sunned. Heavy offsetting to endpapers; contents otherwise clean; no inscriptions; binding sound. 9.25 x 10.5 inches. View More...
156 pages. Sixth impression, October 1933. Jacket rubbed, with chipping at extremities. Publisher's purple topstain. Thin stain to lower edge of textblock; no inscriptions; binding sound. A very good example, issued at the tail end of prohibition. View More...
