Kind Cooking. With a Section on Diet by Syvil Le Brocquy. Decorations by Louis Le Brocquy. Published by The Kerryman, Tralee, [1946]. First Edition. Pp, 133. Quarter cloth paper boards in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket designed by Louis Le Brocquy. the delicate jacket is frayed along folds, book in fine bright condition.

Illustrated with photographs and with drawings by Le Brocquy at the head of each chapter. 

Maura Laverty was an Irish novelist, storyteller, poet, journalist, scriptwriter, playwright, broadcaster, advice columnist and cookery book writer. ‘Kind Cooking’ was reissued in 1947 as ‘Maura Laverty’s Cookbook.’