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Good Cheer The Romance of Food and Feasting.<br />First edition.
by Hackwood, Frederick W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. First edition, 1911. Hardback. 1 - 424, [i - ii], iii - xiii (Classified Catalogue of T. Fisher Unwin's Publications), 1 - 87, [2] (further Publisher's ads). Colour frontispiece (with tissue guard) and 24 other illustrations. Publisher's original blue cloth boards with gilt to upper board and spine. top edge gilt. No jacket. Book in fair condition. Cloth frayed at hinges and some wear to extremities of spine. Corners a little bumped - mostly bottom corners. Spine discoloured. Colour frontispiece almost detached but text block still sound. Toning to end papers and some light sporadic spotting throughout. Pencil notes to rear paste down. A well-used book but still very serviceable with clearly readable text.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1307908
- Title
- Good Cheer The Romance of Food and Feasting.First edition.
- Author
- Hackwood, Frederick W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1911
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Food & Wine;
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About the Seller
Ariadne Books
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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