Search Results: Titles starting with C from Beth's Books

This classic introduction to cake decorating is also a refresher course for the advanced decorator, touching on principles of general piping and ornamenting and including chapters on flowers and sprays, lace and embroidery work, flood work and crimper work. It includes plentiful illustrations of prize-winning exhibits created using these designs. Hardback, 128 pages. This book is in good condition with soiling and rubbing to boards, and some spotting to first and last few pages. No dust jacket.Carefully packaged for shipment from Sydney, Australia.

'Called Back' is an 1883 mystery novel written by Englishman Frederick John Fargus under the pseudonym Hugh Conway. A best seller in its day, It is now considered to be a classic of the mystery genre.This seemingly scarce edition was published by Rand, McNally & Company in Chicago (undated). It has dark blue boards with a floral art nouveau motif in paler blue on the cover and spine, with embossed cream flowers and titling. 288 pages. No jacket.In good condition generally, with some soiling, scuffing and bumping to cover. Front corners are bent. Good firm binding. There is a little yellowing to pages but they are otherwise clean. No internal markings. Please see photos for more details.

"This is the story of how man has discovered the composition of natural products, imitated them, and in some cases improved upon them, and the explanation of the nature of such substances as vitamins, hormones, penicillin, cocaine, nylon and silicones." Written by an Oxford educated chemistry teacher, this book provides a glimpse into this fascinating science as it appeared in the mid-20th century.Published in 1957 as Penguin Book A353, it is in good aged condition with some fading and soiling to covers and rubbing and creasing at edges and corners. There is a small (1 cm) tear at bottom of spine. Age spotting and yellowing to pages but binding is firm an all pages are intact. Free from internal annotations. Please see photos.Carefully packaged for immediate shipment from Sydney, Australia, with tracking.

This is a 1972 edition of the original 1953 book. It contains a wealth of classic Jewish recipes for all courses, as well as handy tips and information. No dustjacket. Well used with a split at spine on front and rubbing and staining to cover. Page edges show brown marbles marks. Pages are good inside and it is free from highlighting and annotations (one short note in blue pen excepted). Please check photos.This is a large heavy volume and will attract additional postage costs.

A delightful cumulation of inspired recipes for the expert and the amateur, with an amusing narrative and taste-tingling, soul-stirring dishes. "Sheer gustatorial enchantment..."This paperback volume is an Ace reprint of the 1962 original and contains pieces previously published in various national magazines (USA) such as Vogue, Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. 221 pages. It is in good condition with signs of wear including some soiling, scuffing and creasing to cover. Pages are tanned and there is a water stain across pages which becomes gradually fainter and disappears by page 55. Binding is firm and pages are free from notes and annotations.Carefully packaged for shipment from Sydney, Australia.

This slim volume has dark red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket.135 pages. Includes menus and recipes for every course, focusing on food that is economical and attractive, particularly important when first published in 1949. "The less food we have, the more important it is to cook it well". Boards have slight rub wear and marking with bending at bottom corners. Endpapers show brown markings from a previously fitted jacket, and remnants of a previous seller's price sticker and stamp. Also pencilled markings. Clear and bold text with firm binding. Boards have slight rub wear and marking with bending at bottom corners. Please see photos.Sent within 2 business days, carefully packaged, tracking available.

No. 5 in the Ure Smith Miniature Series, a compact volume of 72 pages. It includes suggestions for a range of menus to fit occasions such as A Dinner Party to Impress, Men's Dinner, Invitatons on Impulse and Some Picnic Meals. Printed on heavy paper with colour illustrations. It is in good used condition overall, with all pages intact. Binding is cracked at three quarters of the way through, pages 48-49 ( see photo). Cover has scuffing and wear at corners and the spine is loosened at the top edge, with tears to paper covers where they meet the spine. Ink stain on front cover (approximately 2 cm by 1 cm). White mark to back cover where surface has been worn away. Previous price marked in black ink on front flyleaf but no other notations or inscriptions. The pages are yellowed with scuffing along side edges, and there is a 3.5 cm tear at page 30. Text is clear. The author is a poet, university lecturer and music critic, as well as a distinguished cook and "civilised human being" who has created a book… Read More

A fabulous collection of character costumes using simple pattern shapes, with a minimum of sewing. Suits kids from about 5 to 12. Instructions of accessories are also given. Characters include Robin Hood, Little Miss Muffet, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, The Queen and Knave of Hearts, Aladdin, Puss in Boots, and more. Illustrated instructions and photographs of finished costumes.This is an ex-library copy and is covered in clear plastic. It has stamps and stickers on endpapers and catalogue sticker on spine. In very good condition throughout, slight yellowing its only issue.Carefully packaged and ready for immediate shipent from Sydney, Australia, with tracking.