All About Coffee by Ukers, William H - 1935

New York: The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal Company. Very Good+. 1935. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Large format hardcover, no dustjacket, the original second edition of this comprehensive reference and a very nicely-preserved copy, the brown cloth binding is clean, tight and square with minor flaws only: it has a small amount of wear to the bottom corners, the top corners and spine-tips have mild rubbing, and some of the gold title on the spine has lost its shine, the former owner's name is present at the top of the half-title page, front end-paper and in the top margin of page 101, a bookplate was removed from the half-title page leaving a beige glue-mark, these are also minor flaws, all of the text and illustrations are pristine (we examined it page-by-page to ensure this), quite a suitable gift copy, 818 pages, countless illustrations throughout, including a few color plates, examines the history, technical, scientific. commercial, social and artistic aspects of the blessed bean, also includes a Coffee Chronology, Coffee Dictionary and a Bibliography, a must for the serious collector .