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Item #BB2753 Good Food. Month by Month Recipes. Ambrose HEATH, Edward BAWDEN, Illustrates.

Good Food. Month by Month Recipes

London: Faber and Faber, MCMXXXIX [1939]. First Edition [from 1932]. Hardcover. Third Impression of this first in a series (and arguably the finest) of cookery titles the two men collaborated on. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): 279,[1]pp, with title-page vignette within ornamental border and 19 black-and-white illustrations. Publisher's beige cloth, spine lettered in sky blue, top edge stained grey-green; beige dust jacket, illustrated by Bawden and printed in sage green, wine-red, and black and priced 7s/6d. Tightly bound and virtually pristine (lightly read, if at all). Bliss, p. 181. Fine / Fine-. Item #BB2753

Much of the contents appeared originally in the Manchester Guardian, the Morning Post, and the News-Chronicle. Heath wrote more than 100 cookery books, many of which featured the word "good" in their titles, and a host of those were decorated by Bawden, including Good Food, More Good Food, Good Food for the Aga, Good Drinks, and Good Food Without Meat. Bawden's illustration here for the month of May depicts four figures enjoying a picnic lunch; the four are, in fact, Bawden, Eric and Tizah Ravilious, and Tom Hennell, on the lawn at Brick House, which they rented at Great Bardfield Essex. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Price: $335.00

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