horticultural books inc stuart florida (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : None. 260 pages, including an index. The volume itself has yellow covers with a pictorial front cover. Mostly black & white illustrations, a few color. The author is the middle brother of the world renowned Menninger brothers, all sons of Dr. Charles F. Menninger, Founder of the Menninger Foundation and a long-time physician in Topeka, Kansas where this author was born. Other than a bit of age toning this work is in quite nice shape. No underlining, no highlighting, no bookplates, no owner names, not ex-libris, no remainder marks, no folded or dogeared pages, no smudges. Available for immediate shipment, carefully packed!

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. A few simple line drawings, pp 186, (10), slight foxing of the fore-edge, paperback, covers very slightly rubbed. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fishy" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Laos. While living in Tunis, his wife asked him to look for a cookbook on fish because she did not recognize any of the local varieties. Not being able to find one he wrote one himself. The original manuscript was copied with a stencil machine. A copy reached the British cooking guru Elizabeth David, who passed it on to Penguin Books, which published it in 1972 as Mediterranean Seafood. This was followed by Seafood Of South East Asia (1979) and North Atlantic Seafood (1979), for which he travelled throughout the region, gathering thousands of recipes from Portugal to Iceland.].

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Reprint of First Edition. 290 pages (complete). From the private library of arborist, H B Nicholson. The spine has a clear plastic protective cover (smart with very light scuffing). The boards are sound. Within, the frontispage has a gift inscription. The contents are benign. The early and later pages have some foxing and there are strips of aging scotch-tape. In general and by-and-large, the pages are clear, mellow, mild, clean and competent. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.