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All About Tea.
by UKERS, William Harrison
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company,, 1935. A drink steeped in history First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the half-title of Volume I, "William H. Ukers, New York, Jan. 31. 1940". This encyclopaedic treatment of tea's history and consumption contains 1,700 illustrations and 54 chapters, and it remains the authoritative work on the subject. Ukers (1873-1945) founded the Tea and Coffee Trade Journal in 1901 and spent almost all of his professional life researching tea's history. He also wrote a history of coffee, for which he was awarded a gold medal at the 1923 Brazilian Centennial Exposition. The publisher's folding advertisement is loosely inserted in Volume I. Two volumes, quarto. Original green vertically ribbed cloth, spines and front covers lettered in gilt, front covers with decorative teapot vignette in gilt and blind double panel, decorative map endpapers. With dust jackets. Frontispieces (Volume I in colour), hundreds of illustrations in text. New York ownership inscription of Charles Gilman Tufts (1880-1978), a businessman, on the half-title. Cloth and contents clean, jacket flaps without price as issued, toned and scuffed, small losses to spines, recent archival tape repairs on versos: fine copies in very good jackets.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172796
- Title
- All About Tea.
- Author
- UKERS, William Harrison
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company,
- Date Published
- 1935
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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