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DEIGHTON**, LEN: : OU EST LE GARLIC: LEN DEIGHTON'S FRENCH COOK BOOK. [PH 117.]

LONDON.PENGUIN BOOKS LTD.,1967.

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UK,slim Landscape 16mo p/back,reprint.[Originally and first published in 1965 by same publisher and in same format.This issue a reprint,the first such reprint,of 1967.Card cover's colour photographs and book's design both by Jacques Dehornois,Paris.Clive Irving and Raymond Hawkey responsible for strip-format design with lettering on the strips by Bill Harmer.] FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price removal (10/6) from card covers,black background with white letters to spine/backstrip which has NO reading creases.Bright,crisp,clean.glossy colour photographic card covers with b/w letters; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing - no nicks,tears or splits present - though to front cover's fore-edge,a small horizontal abrasion indent - and rear,lower corner with a small diagonal dog-ear crease,no other creases present.Top+fore-edges remarkably clean with no foxing/spotting and fairly bright - considering book's 55+ year-old age; contents also bright,tight,exceptionally clean; solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases - unread, apart from my own collation.UK,slim Landscape 16mo p/back reprint,8-224pp [paginated] includes a 2pp introduction,10 chapters/sections each with relevant b/w line illustrations,flow charts etc.,covering L'art Culinaire (Cooking),Les Viandes (English & French butchery and cooking of cuts of meat),Les Fromages (cheeses),Les Corps Gras (fats and their uses),La Carte de Vins (simple guides to wine lists,other drinks - spirits,Champagne),La Cuisine Francais et le Froid (cook and store),Le lexique et le menu (French & English words, planning and reading a menu),La Batterie de cuisine (Pots,pans and serving dishes),La carte de des sauce (sauces in chart form),Les legumes secs,riz et pates (beans,lentils,rice,dried vegetables,pasta) all described and visualized in 50 b/w illustrated cookstrips with illustrations+vignettes,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] blank,half-title with blurb about author and book's content,title page, acknowledgements,double-paged contents list/table,b/w line illustrated individual chapter/section separator pages and blank at rear as last pages. This new selection of recipes has been designed as a complete course in French cooking.Some of the strips have been specially prepared for this edition; so has Deighton's entire text. Author's 5th published work,and the 2nd of his 5 cookery books,following on from his first debut cookery book - 'Len Deighton's Action Cook Book' - see my book IDs' rja697,rja923 for either a 1967, Cookery Book Club issue of this title and/or rja1123724 for the 2009 reissue of same title. The son of a professional cook,he spent his vacations from the Royal College of Art working in restaurants,and that experience led him to designing his cookstrips.Originally intended for personal use,Deighton's innovative b/w diagrammatic cookstrips originally appeared as a weekly feature in The Observer (a UK newspaper), the series running from 18 March,1962 until 7th August,1966.He produced a total of 189 Cookstrips for the paper,proving so popular that readers demanded that the strips be printed on tea towels,laid in plastic tabletops,and turned into kitchen wallpaper.They were eventually reprinted into the above mentioned books,in 1965. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard us AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. **

UK,slim Landscape 16mo p/back,reprint.
Not SIGNED.

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