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Bradley, Helen
Miss Carter Came with Us
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very clear gilt lettering to front and spine, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased. 31pp. Delightful paintings by the author who describes and illustrates her childhood throughout the whole year of 1908 in Lees, a small village near Oldham, Lancashire. Tucked in is a 3 page interview with the author from a women's magazine in 1973 and an A4 copy of one of her paintings.
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McLoughlin, Coleen
Welcome to My World
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing to upper edge. 328pp. Biography of Coleen McLoughlin, WAG and wife of Wayne Rooney.
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Fitch, Noel R.
Anais : The Erotic Life of Anais Nin
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight fading to spine and faint traces of storage. 525pp. The first intimate examination of the life of Anais Nin's, the ultimate femme fatale who lived from her early twenties as a liberated woman in Paris.
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Jaffe, Hans L. C.
Pablo Picasso
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly sunned unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 159pp. Biography of Picasso with a wealth of his work and bibliography. With 48 full-page colour plates.
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Bowers, Ronald L.
The Selznick Players
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, clear silver lettering to spine, tiny nick to top of spine and very tiny bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped with damp effect to lightly marked front (none to book cover) with light creasing and rubbing to upper edge. 255pp. The story of David O Selznick and the famous stars who he created in Hollywood and their films. Illustrated. Scarce in UK.
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Walder, Dennis
Athol Fugard (Signed By Author)
Inscribed by author on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. Probably unread. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 118pp. Biography of the South African dramatist and writer whose work highlighted the pain and suffering of the poor and disinherited in his country's terrible past.
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Roche, Stephen; Walsh, David
The Agony and the Ecstasy : Stephen Roche's World of Cycling
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing/creasing to edges and minor traces of handling. 213pp. The story of Stephen Roche, the Dubliner who was only the second person ever to win cycling's three greatest prizes of the Giro D'Italia, the Tour de France and become World Champion in the same year.
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Brower, Charles D.
Fifty Years Below Zero : a Lifetime of Adventures in the Far North
No marks or inscriptions. A clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty page edges and minor rubbing to corners. Incomplete very well rubbed dust jacket. 254pp. The autobiography of Charles Brower who had lived nearly fifty eight years about 330 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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Vallentin, Antonina
Mirabeau : Voice of the Revolution
No marks or inscriptions. to contents A clean tight copy with unmarked maroon cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and minor bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped with three water drop marks to front, small enclosed tear to spine, rubbing to spine ends and well sunned. 542pp. Biography of the great French writer and statesman, whose influence on the French Revolution was decisive. First British edition, translated from the French.
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Housley, Herbert
Back to the Grindstone : Personal Recollections of the Sheffield Cutlery Industry
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to some corners, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint creasing to upper corner of last few pages and no bumping to corners. 174pp. Autobiography of Bert Housley, partner in the family cutlery manufacturing firm of H Housley & Sons of Sheffield. Includes much in general about cutlery manufacturing in Sheffield and the author's views on why Sheffield stopped being at the forefront of this industry. Scarce.
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Chikane, Frank
No Life of My Own: An Autobiography
Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to lower front edge, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 177pp. Biography of a key South African community leader and the struggle against apartheid. Also covered is the fight of black Christians to resist racism in the churches.
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Humphries, Patrick
A Little Bit Funny : The Elton John Story
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with traces of handling. 143pp. A detailed emotional and musical biography of one of the world's most loved pop stars. The book examines Elton John's relationships with family, friends and lovers, along the way detailing the sometimes contrary personality of the star who is known for both his immense generosity and fiery tantrums.
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Horkins, Tony
The Police
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage, first page not price clipped and minor bump to lower rear corner. 45pp. A celebration of music group The Police with a wealth of colour photographs.
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Fleetwood, Mick; Davis, Stephen
Fleetwood : My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 286pp. Autobiography of Mick Fleetwood and the story of Fleetwood Mac, one of the most popular rock bands in history.
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Kassil, Lev
Early Dawn
Signed JC Dumbreck on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Contents close to 'fine'. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked irregularly sunned boards and very minor bumping to some corners. Colour plates plus 361pp. Soviet literature for young people. Based on the story of the life to date of the young artist Kolya Dmitriev, including at the end a series of sixteen of his colour paintings. Well illustrated throughout. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Hosch, Hubert
Andreas Brugger (1737-1812), Maler von Langenargen (Bodensee-Bibliothek)
Book and jacket in as new condition. 268 plates plus 290pp. Biography of German painter Andreas Brugger from the town of Langenargen. Extensive examples of his work in colour and black & white plates. All text in German. (Buch und Jacke in neuwertigem Zustand. 268 Platten sowie 290pp. Biographie von Andreas Brugger deutscher Maler von der Stadt Langenargen. Umfangreiche Beispiele seiner Arbeit in Farbe und Schwarz-Wei¯-Platten. Alle Texte auf Deutsch.)
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Sitwell, Edith
Bath
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. Clean pages in a tight binding with browning to end papers, clean, very faintly marked boards and minor bumping to corners. Top page edges dusty, front and bottom page edges rough cut and dusty. 288pp. Social history of Batth in Somerset in the 18th century, including Beau Nash. First edition, second impression.
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The Editor
Tribute to Sir Winston Churchill
No marks or inscriptions. Colour supplement format folded in half for storage. Clean pages with rubbing to edges. 24pp. Published to celebrate the life of Sir WinstonChurchill by the Daily Telegraph Group on his death in 1965.
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Greaves, Jimmy
My World of Soccer
Previous owner's name/address to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or creased with slight rubbing to rear and minor fading to spine. 126pp. Biography of footballer Jimmy Greaves.
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O'Connor, Frank
An Only Child
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked yellow cloth boards, minor traces of foxing to front page edges and no bumping to corners. Very slightly dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with tiny enclosed tear to front and sunned spine. 192pp. Autobiography of Irish writer Frank O'Connor up to the age of twenty and his release from internment as a revolutionary in 1923.
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Mosley, Leonard
Curzon : The End of an Epoch
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to end papers and no bumping to very sharp corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little foxing to rear and small scratch to spine. 301pp. Biography of George Curzon, Viceroy of India and later British Foreign Secretary. Illustrated.
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Skelton, Raleigh Ashlin
Captain James Cook - after Two Hundred Years : A Commemorative Address Delivered Before the Hakluyt Society
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, tiny mark to rear and no bumping to corners. 24 plates plus 32pp. From an address delivered at the University of London to mark the bicentenary of Captain Cook's first voyage round the world. .
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Summers, Anthony; Swan, Robbyn
The Arrogance of Power : The Secret World of Richard Nixon
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and minor bumping to spine ends and upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little rubbing to upper edge and spine foot. 640pp. A compelling portrait of a politician whose one consistent and relentlessly pursued principle was to win - whatever the cost.
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Greene, Graham
Lord Rochester's Monkey: Biography of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to upper corner of front cover, none rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly rubbed boards and no bumping to corners. 231pp. John Wilmot was the most notorious rake of Charles II's court, famed for his lecheries, wild pranks and drunkenness, feared for his biting wit and also one of the finest lyrical and satirical poets of his age.
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Davey, Peter
The Vale of Health (Signed By Author)
Signed by author on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 320pp. The genius and the life of poet James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), originally from Hampstead's Vale of Health who later settled in Suffolk.
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Vallentin, Antonina
El Greco
Previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Traces of tape marks to end papers. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked black cloth boards, very clear gilt lettering, slight bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with nicks and chips to edges and still taped to remains of clear acetate protective cover. 319pp. A critical and biographical study of the painter El Greco, born in Crete in 1541.
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Stendhal & Earp, T. W. (translator)
Stendhal : Memoirs of an Egotist
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boardsslightly dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little foxing to dust flaps. 143pp. The French novelist, 'exiled' as Consul in a small Italian port in 1832 moved on to memoirs of his love affairs, a visit to London, his opinions of the bourgeois and the Boubon kings. First English Edition.
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Brook, Donald
Composers' Gallery
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Very clean very tight pages with bright unmarked boards, slight sunning to upper front spine corner, slight foxing/dust to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with a little foxing/rubbing and with crease/small tear to upper front spine corner. 218pp. With forty compact biographiesand photographs of classical music composers from Britain and around the world. Frontispiece of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Parkinson, C Northcote
Samuel Walters : Lieutenant R.N.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing/dusty to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked with slight rubbing to spine and and nicks/small chips to upper and lower edges. 154pp. The life of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy based on his memoirs from 1798 to 1810 and his later years up to 1834. Illustrations include the Lieutenant's detailed drawings of ships of the fleet.
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Thomas, Sir Robert
Sir Bob : The Autobiography of Sir Robert Thomas
No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 208pp. The story of the miner's son who follwed his father down the mine near Wigan, Lancashire before becoming a union officer and then a councillor for Manchester. He worked tirelessly for the city, was instrumental in the introduction of the Clean Air Act and ultimately became Lord Mayor and then Council Leader.
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Kirkup, Mike
Jackie Milburn in Black and White : A Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint creasing around upper front edge and minor traces of storage. 178pp. Biography of one of the most exciting football players of his generation in the 1950s who came from a miner's son in the North East to play for Newcastle United, winning them FA Cup after FA Cup and gaining thirteen caps for England.
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Neutze, Diana
As for Tomorrow, I Cannot Say: Thirty-Three Years With Multiple Sclerosis
Book in mint unread condition. 104pp. Writer, PhD in English and university tutor, Diana Neutze from New Zealand tells her personal story of over three decades with multiple sclerosis.
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Magkli, Maria A.
Istories Mias Zois ;
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to oversize parts of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor traces of storage. 367pp. Life stories. All text in Greek.
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Kalogeropoulos, Konstantinos
Otzalan (Otsalan, Ocalan)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 147pp. The revolutionary leader Ocalan and the Kurds in Turkey. All text in Greek.
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Curt Sampson
Hogan
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 262pp. A biography of one of the greatest golfer of all time, Ben Hogan, and one who no one really knew. From interviews with scores of golf professionals the author has lifted the lid on an enigma.
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Staley, Edgcumbe
Raphael Santi
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with blghtly marked very stiff card boards, gilt-embossed cream buckram spine and rubbing to spine ends, edges and corners. Sixty-five single-sided plates of Raphael's paintings plus descriptions and biography on 40pp. The life and paintings of Raphael Santi or Sanzio, born in Italy in 1483. Undated but one painting described as bought in 1902 and now temporarily hung in the National Gallery.
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Freedland, Michael
Dino: The Dean Martin Story
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and very tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with general traces of storage, nick to upper front corner and almost total fade of spine lettering from sunning. The biography of Dean Martin, singer, film star and member of the 'Rat Pack'. Tucked in are a number of news and magazine cuttings of Dean Martin, including one from 1994, the year before he died.
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Thomas, Denis
Monet on Location
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to upper rear edge. 79pp. A study of Monet's travels and how he was inspired to paint the scenes he met, including Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament. Very well illustrated in colour.
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Boswell, James
Boswell's Life of Johnson (illustrated)
Presentation plate (1865) on front end paper. Foxing to end papers and a few page margins. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, well-rubbed edges and corners and frail top of spine. Raised gilt bands down spine with one portion of gilt surface embossing missing Marbled boards and green leather spine and corners. Marbled end papers. Volumes I & II in one volume. 291 plus 298pp. The classic account of Johnson's work and studies, conversations and letters. Illustrated throughout. Cover page dated 1859 but each volume dated 1865.
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Wood, Stanley (editor)
Shakespeare's Coriolanus
No added names or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Mainly very clean very tight pages with bright unmarked front board, tiny ink mark to rear and to a few page edges, ink splashes to about three pages and a little rubbing to most corners. 239pp. A very detailed study of Cariolanus beginning with a biography of Shakespear's life and with the full script of the play plus the characters, Roman history, notes, glossary and discussion. Scarce.
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Thornely, James L.
Monumental Brasses of Lancashire and Cheshire (Limited Edition)
No 183 of a Limited Edition of 500. Bookplate inside front board. Easily removable interesting pencil notes to a few pages. No creasing to covers. Clean very tight pages with very slightly rubbed unmarked boards, tears across spine strip and very well rubbed corners and spine ends. 322pp. Detailed descriptions and concise biographies of the individuals for some twenty-six prominent people whose monumental brass plates are to be found in churches throughout Lancashire and Cheshire. Each is accomapnied by a drawing based on a rubbing, mainly by the author.
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Forman, Sir Denis
Persona Granada: Memories of Sidney Bernstein and the Early Years of Independent Television
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very tiny crease to lower rear corner. The story of how Granada Television established itself as the most innovative of the new independent television companies from 1955 and in particular how the company's prime mover Sidney Bernstein led Granada on to great things, including Coronation Street, World in Action and The Jewel in the Crown.
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Fowkes, Charles
The Life of Rembrandt
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with small nick to upper front edge. 144pp. Biography of the master Dutch painter, well illustrated with his atristic works.
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Sinyard, Neil
Mel Gibson
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight traces of storage. 80pp. Pictorial biography of Australian actor Mel Gibson.
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Sandison, David (editor)
Rock 'n' Roll People
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 175pp. Concise biographies and superb black & white photographs of fifteen rock 'n' roll icons - Dylan, Lennon, McCartney, Stones, Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Clapton, Sex Pistols, Blondie, Marley, Neil Young, Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Kurt Cobain.
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Downing, David
Robert Redford
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 224pp. Biography of Hollywood actor Robert Redford. Very well illustrated.
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Feist, Peter H.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919: A Dream of Harmony
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Biography of Renoir and many of his works in colour full-page prints.
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Maddox, Conroy
Dali
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease near rear spine foot, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, a few tiny indents and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Biography and a wealth of colour images of the work of Salvador Dali.
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Hale, Steve; Thompson, Phil
Michael Owen : The Illustrated Biography
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 80pp. Biography of footballer Michael Owen.
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Gilly Smith
Jamie Oliver: The Kitchen Crusader :The Unauthorised Biography.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of storage. 256pp. Biography of chef and revolutionary in his attempts to get the nation cooking and to improve culinary standards.
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