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[4524] "Charles". The Cocktail Bar. London: W. Foulsham, 1960. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper ISBN: 0572000006. 159pp. No inscriptions. Grey cloth. £6.00

[5553] Allison, Sonia. Microwave Cooking Worldwide. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 0044402465. 158pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Illustrated laminated boards. £6.00

[14425] Althaus, Catherine and ffrench-Hodges, Peter. Cook Now, Dine Later. Faber & Faber, 1970. 4th impression. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good.. ISBN: 0571088155. 243pp. Name on endpaper. Dustwrapper not price-clipped. Green cloth gilt, slight foxing. £6.00

[13415] Althaus, Catherine and ffrench-Hodges, Peter. Cook Now, Dine Later. Faber & Faber, 1969. First Edition. Hardback. Fine. / Very Good.. ISBN: 0571088155. 243pp. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper not price-clipped. Green cloth gilt. £8.00

[10666] Anon. The Best of Summer Fruits. London: Garamond, 1990. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good ISBN: 1855830450. Small format 46pp. Colour illustrations by Madeleine David. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Original pictorial laminated boards. £3.00

[7944] Anon. A-Z of Vegetable Variety - Soups, Snacks, Hot Dishes & Salads. London: Marshall Cavendish, 1985. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: . 4to. 72pp. Colour illustrations. Dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £8.00

[7945] Anon. Chinese Cooking For All. London: Cathay Books, Hardback. Near fine in very good d/w. ISBN: 0904644049. 4to. 128pp. Colour illustrations. Dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £4.00

[7517] Anon. Household Hints and Handy Tips. London: Reader's Digest, 1992. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine. No dustwrapper ISBN: 0276420322. 704pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Blue cloth. £8.00

[7122] Anon. The Settlement Cook Book. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954. Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. 4to. vii, 535pp. Treasured recipes of Six Decades. The famous all-purpose cook book for beginner and expert. No inscriptions. Illustrated beige cloth, rubbed/marked o/w VG. £8.00

[4509] Anon. McCall's Sewing in Colour. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967. 4th Impression. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 0600024571. 4to. vii,308pp. 31 colour plates. 1099 illustrations. No inscriptions. Green cloth gilt. £4.00

[9790] Anon. The Best Slimmer Recipes Under 300 Calories Ever. Glasgow: Losalt, Paperback. Very Good 98pp. No inscriptions. £3.00

[4502] Anon. The Golden Hands Book of Popular Crafts. London: Marshall Cavendish, Hardback. Very Good in Good+ d/w ISBN: 0856850055. 4to. 128pp. Numerous colour illustrations and text diagrams. No inscriptions. Red cloth gilt, front endpaper cracked. £6.00

[10830] Anon. Discovery Book for the Home by Experimenters & Observers. London: Stead's Publishing, Paperback. Good ND. [ca 1910]. 94pp. 2pp. adverts. "Valuable Receipts for Saving Trouble and Clever Ideas to help Everyone in the Home. All well Tested and thoroughly Reliable. Practical Hints from the Experience of Hundreds of Housekeepers and Homemakers all over the World". Inscription dated 1921. Original green wrappers with art nouveau line drawing, worn/marked. £6.00

[12011] Anon. Titles and Forms of Address - A Guide to their Correct Use. London: A&C Black, 1966. Thirteenth Edition. Hardback. Very Good Ex-library. No d/w.. xi,164pp. Ex-Institution of Mechanical Engiineers library with their gold blocked logo on the front board and stamp/bookplate on paste-downs - no other stamps. Red cloth gilt. £4.00

[4459] Anon. McDougall's Puddings and Pies. London: McDougalls Ltd., Paperback. Good. Pamphlet. 48pp. Covers slightly damaged. £3.00

[12440] Arlott, John. Krug, House of Champagne. Davis-Poynter, 1976. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine in near fine d/w. ISBN: 0706701992. 224pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Grey decorated cloth gilt. £6.00

[8599] Black, Maggie. 100 Ways with Cheese. London: Charles Letts, 1976. 2nd Impression. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0850971918. 64pp. No inscriptions. VG. £3.00

[12853] Black, Penny. The Scented House : A Creative Guide to Fragrant and Decorative Ideas for every Room in the House. London: Guild Publishing, 1990. Hardback. Fine in fine d/w 4to. Illustrated. Bookplate. £4.00

[9678] Blacker, Maryanne [editor]. Healthy Heart Cookbook. Sydney: Australian Women's Weekly, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0949892661. No inscriptions. £3.00

[13814] Bland, Christopher and Kelly, Linda. Feasts : An Anthology. London: Constable, 1987. First Edition. Hardback. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0094677603. 266pp. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper price-clipped. Black cloth . £5.00

[10598] Bremner, Moyra. Supertips to make life easy. London: Treasure Press, 1986. Hardback. Fine ISBN: 1850511594. 244pp. Illustrated by Marie-Helene.Jeeves.No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £6.00

[4493] Brinley, Rosemary. Raffia Work. London: W. & G. Foyle, 1951. 2nd Impression. Hardback. Very Good in Good+ d/w ISBN: B0000CHYW4. Foyles Handbooks. 92pp. 38 figures. No inscriptions. Illustrated printed boards. £5.00

[7758] British Red Cross. Practical First Aid. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1995. Tenth Edition. Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 0751300640. 96pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. £3.00

[13017] Cartland, Barbara. The Romance of Food. London: Hamlyn, 1984. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 0600323838. Large 8vo. 176pp. Illustrated wtih photographs and line drawings. Name on endpaper. Pink lmainated illustrated boards. £6.00

[9532] Cassimatis, Jack. The Super Stain Remover Book. London: Bloomsbury, 1992. First Thus. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 1854710974. 80pp. 265 main entries and almost 1000 references to individual problems. No inscriptions. Original laminated boards. £4.00

[12823] Ceres. Herbs to Help You Sleep. London: Thorsons Publishers, 1984. 5th Impression. Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 0722502079. Illustrated. No inscriptions. £3.00

[4494] Christopher, F.J.. Upholstering with a section on Loose Covers and Soft Furnishings by Rosemary Brinley. London: W. & G. Foyle, 1952. 3rd Impression. Hardback. Very Good in Good+ d/w ISBN: B0000CHW98. Foyles Handbooks. 103pp. 38 figures. No inscriptions. Illustrated printed boards. £4.00

[8602] Clark, Pamela (editor). Australian Women's Weekly Home Library - Pasta Cookbook. Sydney: AcP pUblishing, 1997. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 094912835X. 128pp. Illustrated. More than 170 recipes. No inscriptions. £3.00

[4495] Close, Eunice. Knitting. London: Frederick Muller, 1953. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good ISBN: B0000CIJIZ. 103pp. 19 figures. No inscriptions. Red cloth, label partly removed from front endpapers. £4.00

[4496] Coats Sewing Group. Learn Tatting. J. & P. Coats, 1971. . Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0851960014. Pamphlet. Coats Sewing Group Book No. 1088. 31pp. Illustrated. £3.00

[8603] Collins, Val. The Microwave Fish Cookbook. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1983. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good ISBN: 0715383930. 4to. 120pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards, top edge bumped. £4.00

[7934] Colvin, Maggie. Decorating Tricks. London: Hamlyn, 1998. Reprint. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 0600589870. 4to. 144pp. Illustrated. Dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Mauve cloth. £5.00

[8459] Cooper, Derek. The Little Book of Malt Whiskies. Belfast: Appletree Press, 1992. 3rd Impression. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 086281314X. Small format. 60pp. Illustrated by Jane Dodds. Dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £3.00

[4498] Craig Elizabeth. Simple Needlecraft. London: The Literary Press, Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. ND. 192pp. 60 figures. Name on endpaper. Illustarted printed boards, pages browned. £3.00

[4452] Craig Elizabeth. The Way to a Good Table - Electric Cookery. London: British Electrical Development Association, 1937. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. 288pp. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Illustrated silver cloth, spine top chipped, recipe on first notes page, scattered foxing. £6.00

[9543] Daley, Rosie. In The Kitchen with Rosie - Oprah's Favorite Recipes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Reprint. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 0679434046. 129pp. Colour illustrations. No inscriptions. £3.00

[12739] Davies, Jennifer. The Victorian Kitchen. Oxford: ISIS Large Print Books, 1991. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good+. ISBN: 1850895201. 293pp. Illustrated. Large print editon of the book of the BBC TV series. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £20.00

[12809] Davies, Jennifer. The Victorian Kitchen. London: Guild Publishing, 1989. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: . 4to. 191pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Brown cloth gilt. £6.00

[4481] Davis, Dorothy V.. The New Domestic Encyclopaedia. London: BCA, 1968. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper 512pp. Dustwrapper stained. No inscriptions. Orange cloth gilt, fornt endpaper stained. £3.00

[4500] Davison, Irene, Miall, Agnes M. and Polkinghorne, R.K. & M.I.R.. Needlework and Crafts. London: George Newnes, Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. ND. 324pp. 231 figures. No transfers in the rear pocket. Every Woman's Book on the Arts of Plain Sewing, Embroidery, Dressmaking, and Home Crafts. No inscriptions. Cloth dulled. £3.00

[10777] Dawson, Pat [introduction]. A Complete Guide to Embroidery. London: Marshall Cavendish, 1976. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good+. ISBN: 0856851418. 4to. Pages edges slightly browned. £4.00

[8677] de Deney, Diana (editor). A Kitchen for You. London: Disabled Living Foundation, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0901908622. vi, 171pp. Illustrated. A practical guide to equipment and design for elderly people with disabilities. No inscriptions. Covers slightly creased. £3.00

[7051] Deacon, Eileen. Astrological Cook-Book. London: Frederick Muller, 1977. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine price-clipped d/w ISBN: 0584102046. 112pp. Line drawings in the text. No inscriptions. Blue cloth gilt. £6.00

[12132] Dodge, Venus and Martin. The Doll's House Do-It-Yourself Book. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1985. 3rd Impression. Hardback. Very Good in dustwrapper ISBN: 0715382896. 224pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Brown cloth gilt. £6.00

[12818] Drury, Elizabeth. Victorian Household Hints. Oxford: Past Times, 1996. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. Illustrated. No inscriptions. £4.00

[14411] Early, Mabel. Toy-Making. London: Studio Publications, 1944. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good / No dustwrapper. ISBN: B000LH96BQ. Small 4to. "How To Do It" Series No. 34. 96pp. Illustrated. Inscription on title page. Pink cloth., spine sunned. £10.00

[4455] Edden, Gill. The Sainsbury Book of Freezing. London: Cathay Books, 1982. 3rd Impression. Hardback. Fine. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 0861780469. 94pp. Illustrated in colour. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £3.00

[13002] Editors of "The Dictionary of Daily Wants". The Shilling Kitchiner or Oracle of Cookery For The Million with Dr. Kitchiner's Celebrated Advice to Cooks and Other Servants. London: Houlston and Wright, 1861. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 196pp. Frontispiece showing the 'Mode of Laying out the Table for a Dinner-Party of Sixteen Persons'. Printed boards, rubbed and worn on extremities, some marginal annotations. Scarce household management and recipe book based on William Kitchiner's 'The Cook's Oracle' £60.00

[9545] Esson, Lewis. The Creative Cook - Mouthwatering Mediterranean. London: St. Michael, 1992. First Edition. Hardback. Fine 4to. 64pp. Colour illustrations. No inscriptions. Illustrated laminated boards. £4.00

[5958] Farnsworth, Ruth. Barbecue Cookbook. London: Cavendish House, 1985. Reprint. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 085685901X. 4to. 64pp. Colour illustrations. No inscriptions. Illustrated laminated boards. £6.00

[10775] Fassett, Kaffe & Hunt, Zoe. Glorious Needlepoint. London: Book Club Associates, 1987. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. ISBN: . 4to. 160pp. Colour illustrations. No inscriptions. Original red cloth gilt. £5.00

[3282] Fearon, Ethelind. The Reluctant Hostess. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1957. 4th Impression. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper 127pp. Pictured by Alex Jardiine. No inscriptions. Pink cloth gilt. £4.00

[7946] Ferguson, Judith. The Magic of Microwave. Guildford: Colour Library Books, 1987. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in near fine d/w ISBN: 086283581X. 4to. 272pp. Colour illustrations. Dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £6.00

[5560] Fisher, Patricia (editor). Age Erasers for Women. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, 1994. 6th Impression. Hardback. Very Good+. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 0875962149. xii, 676pp. 'Actions You Can Take Right Now to Look Younger and Feel Great'. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £4.00

[4501] Foster, Elizabeth Glasier. Embroidery and Design in the New Stitchery. London: Sir Isaac Pitman, 1926. First Edition. Hardback. Reading copy. No dustwrapper. NEw Needlecraft Series No. 4. 173pp. 5pp adverts. 4 coloured plates. 40 illustrations. School name on paste-down. Red cloth with black designs, half of backstrip missing, £4.00

[8299] Fredericks, Carlton and Bailey, Herbert. Food Facts and Fallacies - The intelligent person's quide to nutrition and health. New York: Julian Press, 1967. 3rd Impression. Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. 382pp. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Blue-grey cloth, rubbed. £6.00

[9791] Godfrey, Wendy. Low-Fat Cookery. London: J.Sainsbury, 1985. Paperback. Very Good 96pp. No inscriptions. £3.00

[9282] Goldbeck, Nikki & David. The Supermarket Handbook - Access to Whole Foods. New York: Signet, 1976. 8th Impression. Paperback. Good Revised and expanded edition. xix, 460pp. No inscriptions. Pages browned. £3.00

[12386] Grant, Doris M.L.. The Hay System Cookery Book. London: George G. Harrap, 1936. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 273pp. No inscriptions. Red cloth gilt £6.00

[9548] Greatbatch, Sylvia [editor]. A New You. London: Peerage Books, 1988. Hardback. Very Good ISBN: 1850521271. 4to. 160pp. Colour illustrations. No inscriptions. Illustrated laminated boards. £7.00

[5250] Grunfeld, Nina and Thomas, Michael. Home Help ! - The three-in-one household companion. London: Ventura Publishiing, 1983. Hardback. Very Good 4to. 100pp. Colour illustrations. Household hints covering Stain removal, Household tips and First Aid. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £5.00

[12826] Hardyment, Christina. Home Comfort A History of Domestic Arrangements. London: Viking/The National Trust, 1992. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 0670823651. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Green cloth gilt. £10.00

[10776] Harlow, Tina. The Basic Book of Sewing. London: Octopus, 1973. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in dustwrapper ISBN: 0706403525. 128pp. Colour illustrations. Bookplate. Original blue patterned cloth. £5.00

[14174] Hartley, Dorothy [editor]. Thomas Tusser 1557 Floruit His Good Points of Husbandry. London: Country Life, 1931. First Thus. Hardback. Good / No dustwrapper. 4to, 195pp. Coloured frontispiece. Facsimile of the Original Copy in British Museum. of "A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry" followed by "Five Hundred Good Points of Husbandry" with black and white illustrations from the original illuminated manuscript. Quarter fawn cloth, paper covered board worn and damp-stained causing some marking of the endpapers and bowing, internally clean. £25.00

[4458] Holder, Judith and Harding, Alison. Christmas Fare. Exeter: Webb & Bower, 1981. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. ISBN: 0906671345. 4to. 64pp. Elegant colour illustrations. No inscriptions. Green cloth gilt. £6.00

[5788] Holt, J.M.. The ABC of Needlework. London: G. Bell, 1950. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ in Good d/w ISBN: B0000CHR6I. ix,119pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Brown cloth. £8.00

[10746] Horner, Isabel;. Teach Yourself Dressmaking. London: English Universities Press, 1954. Reprint. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper 255pp. No inscriptions. Original blue cloth. £4.00

[11756] Humphry, Mrs.. Manners for Men. London: Pryor Publications, 1995. Facsimile edition . Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 094601423X. 157pp. Adverts. Facsimile of the 1897 edition published by James Bowden. No inscriptions. Illustrated cover. £3.00

[13968] Hyams, Edward. Dionysus A Social History of the Wine Vine. London: Thames & Hudson, 1965. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. 4to. 381pp. 128 illustrations, 8 in colour. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper price intact. Green cloth gilt. £10.00

[9536] Innes, Jocasta. Decorator's Directory of Style. London: Marshall Cavendish/W.H. Smith, 1987. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in dustwrapper 4to. 192pp. Colour illustrations. No inscriptions. Illustrated laminated boards. £7.00

[7952] Jackson, Felicity and Steele, Louise. Deliciously Lean : Fantastic fish. London: Safeway/Good Houskeeping/Ebury Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardback. Fine. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 0091821118. 80pp. Colour illustrations. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £3.00

[7932] Jobe, Joseph (editor). The Great Book of Wine. Switzerland: Edita Lausanne, 1970. Revised Edition. Hardback. Very Good in dustwrapper 4to. 437pp. Profusely illustrated. A full index to 7500 different wines from 34 nations. 44 maps of wine regions (35 in full colour). Revised edition with an updated section on American Wines. Dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Oriignal red cloth gilt. VG+/VG £20.00

[9320] Johnson, Hugh. Understanding Wine. London: J. Sainsbury, Paperback. Good Sainsbury's Food Guides No. 7. 40pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Cover creased o/w VG. £3.00

[1624] Kerr, Graham. The Graham Kerr Cook Book. London: W.H. Allen, 1971. First Edition. Hardback.. Very Good in Very Good d/w. ISBN: 0491002696. 284pp. Illustrated. Cookbook by The Galloping Gourmet. Dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Orange cloth gilt. £4.00

[7955] Kitney, Margaret. The Pilgrims Biscuit Book - Munches and Crunches for your Delight. 1984. Paperback. Very Good 21pp. Illustrated wrappers. Produced to raise funds for the East Kent Pilgrims Hospice. £3.00

[5051] Lady Montagu of Beaulieu. To The Manor Born. London: Gentry Books, 1971. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ in Very Good+ d/w 143pp. Illustrated. A collection of old English recipes. Bookplate on half-title "Palace House Edition . This edition signed by the author , is limited to 750 copies of which this is number .....". Neither signed nor numbered. Green cloth gilt. £6.00

[4507] Liley, Alison. Christmas Decorations. London: Mills & Boon, 1970. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in dustwrapper ISBN: 0263515257. 4to. 79pp. Colour plates and line drawings. No inscriptions. Red cloth. £6.00

[7936] Love, Gilly. Storage Solutions. London: Conran Octopus, 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good in Very Good d/w ISBN: 1850290245. The Habitat Home Decorator Series. 80pp. Illustrated. Dustwrapper over illustrated ard covers. No inscriptions. £3.00

[5554] Macmillan, Norma. Tesco Cookery Collection : Wines and Spirits. London: Cathay Books for Tesco, 1986. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 0861783964. 64pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Illustrated laminated boards. £3.00

[8365] Mann, Kathleen. Embroidery Design and Stitches. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1957. 5th Impression. Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. 4to. 48pp. Colour frontispiece. 4 plates and many line drawings. No dustwrapper. Name on endpaper. Beige cloth, marked/bumped. £3.00