Mozzarella: Inventive Recipes from Leading Chefs with Buffalo Mozzarella by Photographed by Sian Irvine

Mozzarella: Inventive Recipes from Leading Chefs with Buffalo Mozzarella by Photographed by Sian Irvine lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Scriptum Editions, 1998, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs;

From the cover: "In the winding streets of Naples, mozzarella cheese is made daily from buffalo milk. It is eaten fresh as is, or paired with local produce to bring out its natural flavours and moist texture. These same qualities make buffalo mozzarella ideally suited to the demands of modern living — it is easy to prepare, light on the stomach and the perfect partner for other classic elements, whether aubergines, tomatoes, peppers, Parma ham or figs. With this emphasis on freshness and simple, quality ingredients as its premise, Mozzarella brings together a collection of recipes from Britain's leading chefs. Each dish is beautifully captured by photographer Sian Irvine, making Mozzarella as much a book about the art of food as it is about enjoying food."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper which has a slight age-tone overall. Text complete, clean and tight.

Black boards with Silver titling to the Spine.
160 pages. Index. 9½" x 9½".

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Indecent Exposure: A Novel by Evelyn Berckman

Indecent Exposure: A Novel by Evelyn Berckman lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Hamish Hamilton, 1975, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "Those voices! All talking and talking to me. And mixed up with them, in the strangest way, was this… this arithmetic. Numbers, adding and subtracting themselves. As if a partition had given way somewhere'. Mrs Valeria Tor's mind was deeply disturbed, perhaps bordering on insanity, and yet most of the time she appeared perfectly sane and lucid. But then a curtain seemed to descend, and her entire personality altered. Her son Hugh told his mother's latest companion, Jacintha Cory, that she merely needed taking out of herself. But how could Jacintha explain Mrs Tor's suicidal tendencies? And why did she always suffer a relapse after encountering certain gypsies who must have been living in the neighbourhood? What part did Miss Pargill play, that curious woman lurking upstairs? But above all, for Jacintha, the crucial question was: should she trust Hugh or should she trust the solicitor, John Dennison? Before she discovered the answer, she was to experience a period of sheer terror — and was to be reminded of a strange and distasteful encounter with a student of Schumann's easier piano pieces, whose behaviour belied his respectable exterior.

Evelyn Berckman, setting her latest exercise in tension and mystery against the misleadingly peaceful background of a Sussex show village, turns the screw with a vengeance. Indecent Exposure is her best novel since the classic Stalemate."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Text complete, clean and tight.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
231 pages. 8" x 5¼".

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Family business by Anthony Blond

Family business by Anthony Blond lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

André Deutsch, 1978, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "At the centre of this family saga is a gigantic figure: Sir Ezra, later Lord, Sterling. His father, Big Oscar Steimatsky, came penniless to England at the turn of the century and laid the foundations of a business empire on his knack for repairing cash registers. By 1936, when the story proper begins, that empire is so flourishing that its ruler, Ezra, can surround his family with walls of gold.

How this is achieved, and how Ezra keeps control of the business and of the family's exuberant private lives, makes fascinating reading. An inside view of big business in all its intricacy is given warmth and colour by the many personal stories woven into it. The Sterlings are passionately loyal to each other, but loyalty is far from precluding plot and counterplot within the clan, and Ezra sometimes has to stretch his resourcefulness to outrageous lengths in order to contain the unruliness of various members of his flock.

The reader gradually begins to share the family's belief in the infallibility of this formidable, witty, cynical, sentimental, brutal and tender man. An important element in the story — the element which makes it moving as well as amusing and amazing — is Ezra's own discovery that he is not infallible. He can shrug off occasionally being check-mated by a potential brother-in-law, or outwitted by his wife; but to be wrong for years about a matter so vitally important as his attitude to Israel… What Lord Sterling does when he finally acknowledges this provides a memorable climax to a richly enjoyable novel.

Family Business is the first of three novels about the Sterlings: a fact which will rejoice its readers, because it is one of those books which one hates to put down for the last time."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Heavily faded at the spine of the dust wrapper otherwise a very well presented copy.

Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
431 pages. 9½" x 6¼".

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The English: The Making of a Nation from 430-1700 by Malcolm Billings

The English: The Making of a Nation from 430-1700 by Malcolm Billings lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

British Broadcasting Corporation [B.B.C./BBC], 1991, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Maps;

From the cover: "WHO ARE THE ENGLISH? From the Anglo-Saxon invasions to the Act of Union — the end of specifically English history — Malcolm Billings evokes a vivid picture of the people, places and events which shaped the national character.

This book sets out to explore the quality of Englishness that distinguishes this people from other Europeans including the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish. What influence did successive waves of invasion — Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman — and the traumas of the Black Death, Civil War, and Industrial Revolution have on the English character? And how did individual monarchs and famous figures from the world of chivalry, politics, religion and learning help to forge English culture and personality?

Searching out sites at home and abroad, Malcolm Billings, together with historian Jonathan Riley-Smith, visits castles, churches, battlefields and great country houses which all have a part to play in the fascinating story of the English."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

Red boards with Silver titling to the Spine.
146 pages. Index. Bibliography. 8¾" x 7½".

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Personal Geography: Almost an Autobiography by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Personal Geography: Almost an Autobiography by Elizabeth Coatsworth lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

The Stephen Greene Press (Vermont), 1976, Hardback in dust wrapper.

2nd impression.

From the cover: "In these ninety-four selections from a half-century of her private journals never published before, and including new pieces written for this book, Elizabeth Coatsworth tells of places and ideas and human relationships in the nearest thing to an autobiography that her legions of admirers are likely to get. Through experiences immediate or distilled as memories, she gives the flavour of her girlhood in Buffalo, New York, around the turn of the century; offers crystalline impressions from two decades of intensive travel through the Far East and Europe; and reflects the beginnings of her career as the author of a body of work which embraces poetry, novels, essays, and more than eighty books for children, among them the Newbery Medal-winning The Cat Who Went to Heaven.

The third of four main sections treats the years of her marriage to naturalist-writer Henry Beston and their settling in at Chimney Farm in Nobleboro, Maine, to rear their children and write notable books in a companionship filled with delight in work and in the texture of country life. And last, as a widow "in my armchair I still travel": the mere physical limits of her seclusion cannot impede a mind which explores, with unfailing clarity, the closer world of old age and approaching death."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Gently faded at the spine. Dust wrapper heavily rippled on the upper panel, less so elsewhere.

Red Spine Strip with Patterned boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[XV] 192 pages. Index. 8¾" x 6".

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The Judgment of Deke Hunter by George V. Higgins

The Judgment of Deke Hunter by George V. Higgins lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Little, Brown & Company, 1976, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "In his most ambitious novel yet, the 'Boss of Bullet-Lettres' turns from the setting of his early books — the underworld of punk criminals — to an equally acrid microcosm: low-level law enforcement.

Deke Hunter is a Massachusetts State Police plainclothesman who, as much as the men he pursues, is being ground in the mills of justice. Thirty-one years old, once a minor-league baseball player, Hunter now has a ten-year marriage to a shrew, three kids, a manipulative father-in-law, a shady paramour, a collection of dashed hopes, and a bank robbery case that keeps twisting out of control. When he is not trying to put behind bars the four men who relieved the Danvers National Bank of $40,000, Hunter is talking out his soured career with his colleagues, resurrecting the bitter, hilarious anecdotes that flavour their work. These uncannily accurate vignettes include such classic George V. Higgins sketches as a gang of gypsies with a driveway-sealant racket; a thief who, when discovered hiding in a closet, bites a cop's arm; and the Assistant DA who shaves his wife's fur coat.

By means of an amazing drama in dialogue, Higgins recreates several marriages, a complex criminal trial, and a great number of characters on both sides of the law. Out of their talk — tough, dirty, shrewd, telling — he wrings an unforgettable composite portrait of the hard 'work, the bumbling, and the pure luck that sometimes, surprisingly, produce justice'."

Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with a nick to the bottom corner of the upper panel, that panel having a light scuff. Top edge of the text block spotted. Text complete, clean and tight.

Gray Spine Strip with Black boards with Black titling to the Spine.
276 pages. 8½" x 5¾".

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Perspectives: An Anthology of 1001 Architectural Quotations by Edited by Charles Knevitt

Perspectives: An Anthology of 1001 Architectural Quotations by Edited by Charles Knevitt lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Lund Humphries, 1986, Paperback.

First in this, paperback, edition. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Drawings;

From the cover: "Perspectives is an intriguing and amusing collection of 1001 quotations about architecture from Classical times to the present day. Organised thematically, the anthology brings together for the first time anecdotes and epigrams, proverbs, aphorisms and maxims about people and places, practice and the profession, and from such diverse sources as Ruskin and Shakespeare, Morris and Mumford, Betjeman and the Prince of Wales, Wright, Gropius, Le Corbusier and Mies.

Compiled by Charles Knevitt, architecture correspondent of The Times, and delightfully illustrated by cartoonist Louis Hellman, it encompasses serious and humorous topics alike and offers a perfect drawing-board distraction to architects, builders, surveyors, planners, writers and historians — anyone, in fact, seeking further insight into the 'Mother of the Arts'.

The book has been published in association with Bovis (a member of the P&O Group)."

Introduction by: Sir Hugh Casson

Very Good.

159 pages. Index. Bibliography. Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6").

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