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Postby Sakkarin » Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:25 am

Has anyone got "Blanc Mange" by Raymond Blanc?

My copy has what looks like a signed "library" sticker in the inside front cover, but it may be a printed facsimile. Does your copy have the same?

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Postby Gillthepainter » Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:10 am

Me miss, me miss! I've got it.

No signed stickers at all, the inside first 2 pages are blanc.

There's a bit of wordiness intro up to page 12,
which ends with a printed signature. I know you don't mean that.

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Re: Books

Postby Sakkarin » Sun Jan 28, 2018 1:28 pm

Thanks for the feedback, this is the inside front cover. I'm still not convinced it's a real signature - the pen used seems far too thin to have drawn such a perfect draughtsmanlike oval, he would surely have broken it within a couple of signatures. I used to use 0.1mm Rotring pens in my graphics work, they are as fine as needles, but you had to treat them with real respect, as new nibs were extremely expensive.

Maybe he carefully signed a load of stickers separately elsewhere and the stickers were plonked in later as "signed copies". For Beeb staff who worked on the project maybe?

EDIT: Nicked from the BBC Library maybe? :tongueout

No doubt about the Pierre Gagnaire signature in his "Reinventing French Cuisine" book though. I realise I've never even really looked at it, I'll have to have another gander. It looks like a 40th Anniversary celebration, it has recipes year by year from 1966 to 2006.

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Re: Books

Postby Alexandria » Sun Jan 28, 2018 2:05 pm

Sakkarin,

Fascinating read ..

All my Raymond Blanc books are from Amazon ..

The one that you have, Mange, I have and it was re published in 1994.

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Re: Books

Postby Sakkarin » Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:42 pm

Oh dear, was that Blanc Mange TV series really 24 years ago? :-(

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Re: Books

Postby Stokey Sue » Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:05 pm

Sakkarin wrote:Oh dear, was that Blanc Mange TV series really 24 years ago? :-(


28 according to Abe books :o

The entry for Blanc Mange is interesting

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780563370161/Blanc-Mange-Mysteries-Kitchen-Revealed-0563370165/plp

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Re: Books

Postby Sakkarin » Sun Jan 28, 2018 6:10 pm

1980 is 38 years ago!!!


They have a signed copy for £3.70 :-(

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Re: Books

Postby Stokey Sue » Sun Jan 28, 2018 7:33 pm

Sakkarin wrote:1980 is 38 years ago!!!(


I'm in denial of our real age ;)

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Re: Books

Postby Alexandria » Mon Jan 29, 2018 12:14 am

@Sakkarin,

I had never seen the B.B.C. T.V. programme ..

I can tell you the original soft cover book was published in 1980 and the hard cover was re - published (2nd edition ) in 1994 ..



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