LUCAS, Elizabeth. A Pretty Kettle of Fish. London: Chatto and Windus. 1935. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the striking dust jacket that goes uncredited. A very good or better example overall, the cloth clean and bright though the lettering a trifle rubbed. The binding tight and square, the topstain bright, other edges gently spotted. The contents with sporadic singular spots throughout, largely fine. The dust jacket unclipped (6s net) with several small tears, rubbing, and tiny chips to the spine tips and corners, the rear panel bottom corner creased with closed tear, but the spine and front panel particularly vibrant and very well-preserved.
A charming culinary volume collecting some 320 recipes for cooking fish. There is a Mediterranean influence throughout, and in her acknowledgment, Lucas gives credit to various at the time well-known French chefs, published authors themselves, as well as Harrod’s Stores ‘for their courtesy in allowing me to inspect their carefully selected collection of kitchen utensils’. Lucas was the wife of Edward Verrall Lucas, and together they wrote an impressive body of children’s fiction. Uncommon in the jacket.
LUCAS, Elizabeth. A Pretty Kettle of Fish. London: Chatto and Windus. 1935. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the striking dust jacket that goes uncredited. A very good or better example overall, the cloth clean and bright though the lettering a trifle rubbed. The binding tight and square, the topstain bright, other edges gently spotted. The contents with sporadic singular spots throughout, largely fine. The dust jacket unclipped (6s net) with several small tears, rubbing, and tiny chips to the spine tips and corners, the rear panel bottom corner creased with closed tear, but the spine and front panel particularly vibrant and very well-preserved.
A charming culinary volume collecting some 320 recipes for cooking fish. There is a Mediterranean influence throughout, and in her acknowledgment, Lucas gives credit to various at the time well-known French chefs, published authors themselves, as well as Harrod’s Stores ‘for their courtesy in allowing me to inspect their carefully selected collection of kitchen utensils’. Lucas was the wife of Edward Verrall Lucas, and together they wrote an impressive body of children’s fiction. Uncommon in the jacket.
