English Bread and Yeast Cookery de Elizabeth David; Illustrator-Wendy Jones; Introduction-Karen Hess - 1980-09-16

Penguin Publishing Group, 1980. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

The Viking Press. Used - Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

The Viking Press. Used - Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

New York: Viking Press, 1980. Quarter cloth binding Book Club hardcover in a dust jacket. Gift note inked on front flyleaf. Dust jacket is good only, with edge wear, sunned spine. Offered nowin a new mylar cover. More than an inspired collection of recipes, it is the culmination of five years of research and Mrs. David's informative and highly readable essays on the history and traditions of bread baking, the different types of flours available to today's cook, the miracle of the yeast plant, and the merits of the various ovens that can be used to bake bread, are masterpieces in the art of food writing. Karen Hess, who has worked closely with Mrs. David in preparing the American edition of this classic volume, has written an introduction expressly for American readers and provided each recipe with American measurements. 592pp., index, line drawings by Wendy Jones.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Jones, Wendy. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

The Viking Press, 1980-09-16. hardcover. Very Good. 20x20x20. Wendy Jones. Light wear to covers. Text clean and unmarked. The binding is tight and square. Light wear to the dust jacket. Your satisfaction is guaranteed!

Viking Press, 1980. 1st printing hardcover with dust jacket. Unmarked copy shows some use and handling. Good only jacket is price-clipped, moderately rubbed along edges, with chip from upper edge back panel, sunned spine. Now in a new mylar cover. More than an inspired collection of recipes, it is the culmination of five years of research and Mrs. David's informative and highly readable essays on the history and traditions of bread baking, the different types of flours available to today's cook, the miracle of the yeast plant, and the merits of the various ovens that can be used to bake bread, are masterpieces in the art of food writing. Karen Hess, who has worked closely with Mrs. David in preparing the American edition of this classic volume, has written an introduction expressly for American readers and provided each recipe with American measurements. 592pp., index, line drawings by Wendy Jones.. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Jones, Wendy. 8vo - 8"… Leer más

Viking Press, 1980. 1st printing hardcover with dust jacket. Unmarked copy shows some use and handling. Unclipped dust jacket, rubbed along edges, spine mildy sunned, offered in a new mylar cover. More than an inspired collection of recipes, it is the culmination of five years of research and Mrs. David's informative and highly readable essays on the history and traditions of bread baking, the different types of flours available to today's cook, the miracle of the yeast plant, and the merits of the various ovens that can be used to bake bread, are masterpieces in the art of food writing. Karen Hess, who has worked closely with Mrs. David in preparing the American edition of this classic volume, has written an introduction expressly for American readers and provided each recipe with American measurements. 592pp., index, line drawings by Wendy Jones.. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Jones, Wendy. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

NY: The Viking Press, 1980. (USA) Book club edition. No markings, faint discolorations to leading edge of pages, thus Good in Good dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to edges of the dJ; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Llight tan boards, black spine, illus endpapers, xxxii, 592pp, index. 24 B&W illustrations. David took 5 years of research to write this almost scholarly but emmensely readable book on the history and traditions of bread baking and yeast cookery. There are informative essays on flour types, the merits of various ovens, the miracle of yeast. The 200 or so recipes have American equivalents and range from a six-page discussion of the basic loaf to the complexities of French puff pastry. In addition Karen Hess worked closely with David to prepare this American edition and has provided an introduction in which she praises the wrok as a model of "intellectual integrity". The sources of all the recipes are given and there is a comprehensive bibliography. (3.1 JM HOZ 402/4.… Leer más

NY:: Viking Press,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0670296538 . With introduction and notes by Karen Hess. First American edition. Very good in a very good (trace edge wear, age toning to flap edges) dust jacket. .