Contains several colour plates. Marginalia to a few of the recipes. Soiling to a few pages. Boards show some shelf wear and bumping of the corners. Endpapers show slight foxing.

Title page has been removed. Many recipes and some cultural history relating to food.

Ex-library, with ink inscription on fep. Some letters of title, missing on fep.

Shelf wear to top and bottom of spine.

Illustrated on nearly every page.

Black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Clean clear text. Boards show slight wear and scuffing. Ink Inscription to Half Title page

Text is clean and clear with colour plates throughout. Boards and DW show little wear.

No dust jacket. Blue cloth covers in firm condition and slightly stained, with a worn sunned spine. Frontispiece photograph page loose. Former owner’s details inscribed on front endpaper. 1954 third impression of the 1954 edition. Autobiographical account by one of the Royal Navy’s most successful World War II submarine commanders about the events surrounding his court martial and his subsequent dismissal in 1952.

Some sunning to the dust jacket.

586 illustrations and 19 colour plates. DW shows small tears and wear along the edges. Bookdealer’s mark on fep.

Text clean and binding tight but extensive foxing on fore edges of pages. Top and bottom edges of boards and spine sunned as well as stripe on spine. DW chipped top and bottom with closed tear at base of spine.

First edition. Crime thriller set in the Austrian Tyrol. The case of Peregrine’s Tilly is solved with usual wit of Dagobert and Jane. Dust jacket has a small loss to left hand corner and chipping to edges. Good firm copy

Part of the Orpheus Series. For “adult” readers.

Black and White stills of mostly horses, from the film.

Previous owner’s name and address neatly inscribed on front fep.

Slight fading to cover of spine.

Limp covers in good condition, showing slight wear along edges.

Previous owner’s name on free endpaper. Original cover (pasted on new casing) is marked and worn.

Kennis vir Almal: Letterkunde-afdeling; no. 28. Owner’s name in ink on front fep. Unmarked copy with clean unfaded covers.

With 851 illustrations including 60 hand-mounted colour plates. Previous owner’s blind stamp to the front fep. DW in near fine condition.

Three volume set : Volume I published 1952, Vol. II 1955, Vol. III 1957. Original Dutch text. Text of all three volumes is clean and clear. Boards show slight wear.

Past owner’s bookplate pasted on front endpaper. Top corners of boards slightly bumped; top fore edges of pages foxed. DW has chips and tears top and bottom with small pieces missng at top of spine.

Various colour plates, drawings, pictures etc. inside. Contains a section on the Royal Family with photographs. Some pen marks (puzzles). Dust-jacket significantly worn

No dust jacket. Blue cloth covers in firm condition displaying minor wear and staining, with an edge worn sunned spine.