Recipes of All Nations. by MORPHY, Countess

Herbert Joseph Ltd, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. Reprinted. 639 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with lettering. 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.

Neville Spearman, 1953. Hardcover. Good. 1953. 639 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Neville Spearman, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. Reprinted. 639 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Arco Publications, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1957. Reprinted. 639 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Bookseller sticker stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

New York: Wm. H. Wise, 1952. Later printing. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; no jacket; covers soiled, hinges starting, a few hand written notes. A well regarded cookery book(even Fricassee of Iguana from Guinea for the adventurous) by the self-titled Countess Morphy, Marcelle Azra Hincks, a native of New Orleans who lived in England for much of her live starting about age 10. "Recipes of All Nations, was published by Selfridges in 1935. A massive book of 800 pages, each of 18 chapters covers a country. There are two other chapters; on ‘The Creole Cookery of New Orleans’ (with an introduction outlining the history of this her homeland) and a final one on ‘Cookery of Many Lands’. Despite her husband’s opinion that she wrote to promote peace, she is pessimistic about the role of cookery in international affairs in her preface: "Racial and climatic factors are responsible for the wide divergencies in national cookery and… Read More

New York: Wm. H. Wise, 1935. Reprint, 1948. HC, no DJ. MV Fair. Red cloth, yellow titling, heavily edgeworn, spine tips frayed & crushed, soiled, sun fading, tape repair to front hinge, illustrated endpapers, thumb-indexed, moisture stained to bottom edge, shaken, unmarked. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.

New York: WM. H. Wise & Co, 1941. Hardcover. Good. Good minus hardcover. Book has 6 inch tear at middle of spine near front gutter, rubbing of spine, edges, and corners of cover, foxing of endpapers, yellowing of pages. Thumb index on outer foredges of pages. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1948. Full red cloth binding, with mildly rolled spine. 821pp., with thumb index tabs along page fore edges. FAIR only jacket is chipped and very worn, missing top couple inches at spine head. Withal, offered now in a new mylar cover. Recipes from 29 countries!. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Herbert Joseph Limited, 1946. Reprint . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Reprint, 1946. Publication of 639. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and small closed tears along the spine. The pages are 'slightly browned' around the edges of the book, due to the storage. The text remains clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1944. Hardcover. Very Good . Very nice copy, neat, clean and unmarked. Binding firms and square. Some discoloration to top edge.