Case 10
- Cookery and garden
John Buck. Take a little wine. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1969.
John Buck’s Take a little wine is a wine and wine-making guide for New Zealanders and a celebration of the enjoyment of “civilised wine drinking”. It features the jacket design of artist Earl Hingston (1938-) whose cover art works tend to be of a modern, upbeat and colourful character, and in this instance, with a touch of subtle humour.
--Hamish Thompson. Coverup: the art of the book cover in New Zealand. Auckland: Godwit, 2007.
Noel Holmes. Just cooking, thanks: being a dissertation on New Zealand seafoods. Wellington: Reed, 1963.
Invercargill-born Noel Holmes was a journalist known for his Auckland Star newspaper column “Just looking, thanks”. Just cooking, thanks is a pun on this title, and comprises a light-hearted series of yarns about seafood cookery reprinted from the Auckland Star. The illustrations (and cover art) are by Neil Lonsdale (1907-89), an Auckland cartoonist whose work often featured in the Women’s Weekly.
Noel Holmes. Just cooking, thanks: being a dissertation on New Zealand seafoods. Wellington: Reed, 1963.
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Richmond E. Harrison. Handbook of trees and shrubs for the Southern Hemisphere. Wellington: Reed, 1959.
Richmond E. Harrison (1902-91) was a horticulturalist and well-known author of books on trees. His Handbook of trees and shrubs underwent numerous republications throughout the 1960s-1970s.
Harrison was an authority on botanical classification, and the handbook’s jacket design by illustrator Eric Heath (1923-) shows three flowering plants from each of four Southern Hemisphere regions: South Africa, South America, New Zealand and Australia. The back flap contains a key to the vivid cover design.
Richmond E. Harrison. Handbook of trees and shrubs for the Southern Hemisphere. Wellington: Reed, 1959.
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Cicely Wylie. A garden at my door. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1964.
Journalist and broadcaster Cicely Wylie (1899-1976) was a well-known figure in her time on the topic of flower gardening in New Zealand. This book of practical gardening hints is an attractively presented Caxton Press publication with jacket design by Edward N. Bracey (1936-2009), an English-born, Canterbury-based New Zealand artist.
