The Hostess Dinner Book by Gallati, Mary

Souvenir Press Ltd, 1959. Hardcover. Good. 1959. First Published. 289 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white and colour photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hutchinson of London, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1962. No Edition Noted. 303 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Souvenir Press Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1953. First Edition. 184 pages. Signed by the author. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Flat signed by Author. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Hinge are cracked. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

London, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1962. First Edition. 303 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated dustjacket over black cloth. Dedication from author to front endpaper. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Book has forward lean. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Tape repairs present to spine.

Souvenir Press, 1953. Second edition. HBN

Souvenir press, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1967. No Edition Stated. 288 pages. Pictorial jacket over cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

London, Hutchinson, 1962;. 1st Edition; Hardback; Nr fine/ Dj Very good; 303pp; Black covers with title on spine; Dust jacket by Lavinia Farmar Bowers has price clipped. .

London:: Souvenir Press,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. Second edition. Book-plate on front free endpaper, brief marginalia on a few pages, else very good in a very good (moderate edge wear with a few small chips) dust jacket. .

London: Abbey. Good/Good. Hard Cover. 8vo No date circa 1960s. Dust jacket tears, some loss to edge. Original cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Slightly darkened pages. Illustrated. 261 pages. Mary Gallati, author of the outstandingly successful Hostess Dinner Book, requires no introduction to everyone who values good food exquisitely cooked and presented. As the daughter of Mario of the Caprice, the world-famous London restaurateur, and as an author and T.V. broadcaster on the culinary art in her own right, Miss Gallati is superbly well equipped to advise on this, perhaps the most civilised of human pleasures. In Mary Gallati's Good Cooking Companion her flair for finding the unusual dish, the delectable sauce, the extra mouth-watering flavour, has found its fullest expression. Yet this book, which has taken three years to compile and perfect, differs in an even greater respect from all other cookery guides. In addition to covering an encyclopaedic range… Read More

London: Souvenir Press. Good. Hardcover. 261 pages. No dj.<br> .