RECIPES FROM NO. 10 BY GEORGINA LANDEMARE 1958 FIRST EDITION

RECIPES FROM NO. 10 BY GEORGINA LANDEMARE 1958 FIRST EDITION

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[LANDEMARE, GEORGINA]. Recipes from No. 10. Some Practical Recipes for Discerning Cooks. With Decorations by Selma Nankivell. London: Collins, 1958.

First edition, first print. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (220 x 150 x 25 mm). Pp. 191. English text. Bound in publisher's original cloth with gilt titles to spine. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. Illustrated by Selma Nankivell. With an introduction by Lady Churchill. Rear index. Supplied in original dust jacket. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square, the cover very well-preserved. Interior some spotting to endpaper and fore-edge, the textual pages remaining crisp and clean. Dust jacket lightly browned with some old edge repairs and neatly price clipped to front flap. Scarce.

Notes: When Landemare offered her services to the Churchill's in 1940 she was one of the most sought after and well known cooks in Britain. She worked tirelessly throughout the war, often only leaving the kitchen after midnight and then returning hours later to start cooking breakfast. On VE night, she was told by Churchill that he could not have managed through the war without her. In 1958, Landemare published Recipes from No. 10: Some Practical Recipes for Discerning Cooks, which included a foreword by Clementine Churchill, who says she encouraged Landamare to write the book. It sold-out upon publication and became a collector's item. This is a genuine, scarce, first edition because has publication year on the title page and no review to the inside jacket flap.