Out of Print Books
The Christmas Archives' Bookstore has a number of out of print books for sale. Prices shown including postage within UK. Overseas customers please contact us for additional postage.
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COOKERY BOOKS
365 Puddings by Bon Viveur. A Daily telegrah book of recipes. Fanny and Jonney Craddock. 1975. 1st ed. P/B
Pages used and loose. Working copy . £2/ $ & €3.00
Cookery Book. The British Ladies Comittee in aid of the War Effort. Havana Cuba 1941. 1st ed. P/B. In English/Spanish. A very scarce book. Browning around edges. Very interesting Havana ads. £7/ $ & €10.50
Laycock Teatime Recipes. Freda Murray. From the world famous National Trust timewarp village of Laycock Abbey in Britain. Nice copy P/B N/D £2.50/ $ & €3.75
The Cooking' Woman. Irish Country Recipes and others by Florence Irwin. pub. Oliver & Boyd 1949. H/B Worn green covers Contents good. Some fascinating customs such as burning nuts for Hallow'een, and an old Irish Buttermilk Plant recipe for keeping the bread buttermilk yeast going. scarce and desirable £12/ $ & €18.00
The 1983 High Fibre Recipe Book. Eric Trimmer. Health Digest pub. 1983. P/B V.Good. £1.50/ $ & €2.25
Japanese Cooking. Peter & Joan Martin. penguin reprint 1978. P/B. Not used, but browning on edges. £2.50/ $ & €3.75
A Country Kitchen. Ring bound P/B compiled by a Cambridgeshire parish to raise funds for their Church c. 1960. Nice clean copy. £3.50/ $ & E 5
Favourite recipes from everywhere. A delightful little book published for charity c 1920. paperback little wear. Inside v clean and tight. V Scarce. £6 /$ & €9.00
The Kendal Cookery Book. Pub Kendal education Comittee. 1929. V. worn condition with loose and torn paper covers. But scarce. £1.50/ $ & E 2.25
Tested Recipes for Unity Church Gateshead. 1910. Brown P/B covers. Clean tight pages. £2.50/ $ & €4.50
Making light of Cooking. Van dem Bergs pub. promotion for Spry Margarine. 1950's. £1 /$ & €1.50
Deep Freezing. a P/B Hamlyn pub. 1970. reprint of early 1958 book. Bit grubby around edges otherwise clean and tight. £1.50/ $ & €2.25
The Ainsdale Conservative Bazaar Cookery Book. 1928. P/B covers a little grubby. Inside clean and tight. £2.50 / $ & €3.25
Celebrity Cook Book from the Royal National Lifeboat Inst. With recipes
from the Queen mother, former president and Mrs Bush, Mrs Thatcher, Joan Collins, Tom Conti etc..etc.. 1st ed 1969. V good cond. V scarce. P/B £12/
$ & €18.00
The Welsh Dresser. Recipes from Wales. Sian LLewellyn. Celtic Ed. Pubs 1974. Small paperback. Nice. £1.50/ $ & €2.25
French Household Cooking. Frances Keyzer. London 1928 6th ed. Lovely P/B covers with folkart design. Grubby Some foxing. Otherwise tight and good copy of scarce book. £10/ $ & €15.00
Skuse's Complete Confectioner. This is a very good copy of a 19th century sweet-making book. Lovely advertisements, fascinating recipes and delicious sweets, candies, ice cream, desserts, preserves to make. brown H/B. slightly bumped corners. Very scarce and much sought after book. £20/ $& €30.00
Gourmet Recipes from a Highland Hotel. Faber 1st ed 1967. Pink H/B covers. Clean and VG cond throughout. £10/ $ & €15.00
Greatest guide to Freezer Dieting. 1983. A Slimming Magazine publication. P/B Good recipes and calorie chart combined. £1.50/ $ & €4.50
The Sainsbury Book of Slimming Recipes. 1982. Pictoral hardback. V Good cond. Lovely recipes and colour illustrations. Hard to believe you can lose weight on these! Compact, take with you when you go away to stay on target! £ 2/ $ & €3.00
Sensible Dieting. pub Vino Corp. NY. 1974. P/B Bit grubby on edges otherwise VG cond throughout. £1.50 /$ & €4.50
Adventurous cooking with Fanny Craddock. BBC Pub. 1966. PB Good cond. £1.50/ $ & €2.25
10 Quick and easy Diets. Slimming Mag. Publication. 1991. Good and clean £1.50/ $ & €2.25
The Piddle Valley Cookbook. Piddle Valley is in Rural Dorset, Thomas Hardy Country. Pub 1978. New cond H/B in orig dustwrap, EXCEPT for small stain on flyleaf and dedication. £10/ $ & €13.00
A Calendar of Food and Wine. Classic year round cookbook from the days when our food was seasonal! Hb with original pictoral dustwraps. Little faded but generally VG condition. 270 pages. Pub Faber 1950's. £12/ $ & €18.00
CHILDREN'S TITLES
TURTLES- The Cool Dude Joke Book. Carnival 1991. PB. Very good clean copy. Collectors item in the making! £3/ $ & €4.50
Star Trek Pop-up. Random 1977. 4 perfect pop-ups. One page slight damage at corner. Very good. HB. £12/$ & €18.00
Star Trek Annual 1972 authorised version. Good cond throughout except some cray mark in margins at back. Collectors item. £12/$ & €18.00
The Gnome Mobile. Upton Sinclair. (Walt Disney) PB. New English Library Ed. 1967. Good. £5/$ & €7.50
The House in the Holly Bush. Childrens adventure. Burke 1964. Grubby but good contents. £2/$ & €3.00
The Hardy Boys Book 53. The Secret Panel. Franklin Dixon. Armada ed. 1990. ex library with plastic protective sleeve. Good. £1.50/ $ & €2.25
BATMAN The six deadly demons. Fantail 1992. little faded but new, never opened. £2/ $ & €3.00
GENERAL TITLES
Ski Fast Ski Long. Helen Miller. Doubleday 1960. HB with orig pict dustwrap. Skiing adventure story. Good. £3/$ & €4.50
Julio Iglesias Entre el cielo y el infierno. Autobiography. Very scarce. pictoral soft covers. Planeta 1981. Lots of photographs and a very meaty book for Iglesias fans. £12/ $ & €18.00
The Story of Wells Cathedral. Pub. 1955. Good photographs of Wells. Scarce title. slightly Grubby hardback, contents clean. £2/ $ & €3.00
Strait=Jacket Society. Irreverent view of bureaucratic Japan. Masao Miyamoto MD. PB in orig dustwraps. 1995. V Good cond. £3 / $ & €4.50
Anglers Mail Guide to Coarse Fishing. Hamlyn 1988. Almost as new. Never read. HB £5 / $ & €7.50
Bureaucrats. How to annoy them. Fishall. Very funny little HB V Good cond.£2/ $ & €3.00
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