Lot 197 - A collection of mid-20th century and wartime

A collection of mid-20th century and wartime cookery books, booklets and leaflets, to include Woolton, Lord (Minister of Food) (foreword); Food facts for the Kitchen Front, Collins, London & Glasgow, nd but circa 1941, 128 pages, softcover, approx 20 x 12.5cm; Sykes, L.; The Olio Cookery Book, fifteenth edition, Ernest Benn Limited, London 1928, 309 pages plus preliminaries and adverts, soft cover, approx 24.5 x 15.5cm; Pirbright, Peter; Off the Beeton Track, with illustrations by Victor Ross, Binnacle Books Series, Golden Gallery Press Ltd, London 1946, colour illustrated frontispiece, 146 pages plus illustrated endpapers, bound in pictorial blue and white boards, with dustjacket printed with a 1936 section from a map of Germany verso (possibly due to the post-war paper shortage); Weiss, Chalotte and Emil; Let's have a Party, Bruce Publishing Co Lod, Warford 1946, 77 pages, bound in pictorial red cloth, with dust jacket, approx 24.5 x 19.5cm; Terry, Josephine; Food for the Future, Duckworth, London, reprinted 1942, 111 pages, photo illustrated soft cover; Purvis, Ester; The Jackson Cookery Book (The electric cooker and how to use it), second edition sixth impression 1934; James, E.M.; 150 Tasty Meals for Wartime, Link House Publications Ltd, London, 40 pages, soft cover; Lytton Toye, Doris; United We Cook - A Comedy of Conjugal Cookery... also a selection of war-time recipes, The Wine & Food Society, London nd, soft cover; Craig, Elizabeth (edited); Potato Recipes, revised edition, The Potato Marketing Board, 1936, illustrated soft cover; Gorina, R.; Russian Fare A Selection of recipes, The New Europe Publishing Co. Ltd., London 1945, illustrated soft cover; Symington's Recipes, Bowden Mills; and many more soft cover leaflets, Good Housekeeping Cookery Book 50th Anniversary Edition, Ebury Press, 1998; and Bird, Peter; The First Food Empire: A History Of J. Lyons and Co, Phillimore & Co, Chichester 2000, hard cover with dustjacket

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