Book Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, with line drawings by Ivan Ripley. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spines. Edges toned, a few dog-eared pages, one-line blue-pen note to p. 64, some sauce spatters. In Ginger Tilley's playfully-lettered dust jacket: gently toned, wear and creasing to edges, faint stain to heel of spine.
Dealer Notes
An happily-used copy of Delia Smith’s first, “phenomenally popular volume,” featuring Ivan Ripley’s apt, surreally-seventies illustrations.
A revised edition was published in 2008.
Author SMITH, Delia; RIPLEY, Ivan (illustrator); TILLEY, Ginger (DJ design).
Date 1971
Publisher London: Ebury Press
Condition Good+/ good+

Price: £45.00

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