Search Results: Food & Drink from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

Montreal: The Family Herald and Weekly Star, (No date, but circa 1920s). Publisher’s pictorial brown card covers, pp. 215, [1]; black and white plates. Holograph recipe for "Dough nuts" in ink on verso of title page, with some bleed through. Previous owner has also made a hole in the upper left corner through the text block, and fed a string through to the rear cover; the book was presumably hung on a hook in their kitchen with this string, Charming indicators of previous use! Condition is fair to good only: spine chipped and joints splitting; staining and wear to covers, small tear in margin of final leaf. Fair to Good condition, and quite usable..

Toronto The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, at St. Martin’s House, 1940. First edition. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". publisher’s cloth in beige and oxblood, pp. ix, 560, + [6] pages headed for "My Favourite Recipes" and "Dishes My Friends Like". The previous owner has added two recipes in pencil to this section. Previous ownership name, address and related markings on front free endpaper, slight creasing to the first several leaves, small spots to fore-edge, small red ink mark to bottom page edge, cloth covers faintly soiled, lower corner tips worn to boards, else a very good copy. Lacks dust jacket..

(Birchgrove): Sally Milner Publishing, 1991. First edition. Trade paperback format, pp. 153; illustrated. Printed using 100% recycled paper. Nokano is a Melbourne restaurateur. Short remainder stripe to top page edge, else very good..

(New York): HarperCollins, (1993). First edition., 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, blue boards backed in black cloth, pp. xi, 224. Fine in very good dust jacket, with light internal dampstaining, not visible from the exterior.

Circa 8 1/2" x 4", tall pink pictorial card covers, unpaginated but [24]. pp.; illustrated with small illustrations. Circa mid to late 1970s. Staples a bit rusted, else every good..