The Sportsman’s Cookery Book.
London: Country Life, Ltd., 1926.
Octavo (22 x 18 cm.), vii, 156 pages. Decorated initials. FIRST EDITION. An unrepentant sportsman's book, with recipes for the full range of wild game: partridge, pheasant, grouse, woodcock, pigeon, venison, salmon, trout etc. The author reveals, “Really intense and progressive people count the calories in carrots and the vitamins in veal and advise us to live on raw cabbage. This book is not for them, but for the bad lots who openly admit that they like the pleasures of the table and who enjoy life" (the introduction). Some light foxing to the edges of the text block. In marbled paper-covered boards over blue buckram, with paper title label to spine and to top board. Light shelf wear to edges and age toning to labels, adhesion marks to paste-downs - presumably from a dust jacket protector. The scarce, unclipped dust jacket is present, though the jacket is edgeworn and darkened, and has an early small adhesive tape repair to the front panel. Overall very good, in a near very good dust jacket. With the bookplate of Philip Wallace Nash to the front paste-down, and an ownership signature of the same, dated August 1935. Nash was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and of the Wine & Food Society.
Price: $75.00