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What shall we eat? a manual for housekeepers.
by Various
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible; G+
- Seller
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Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
NY: G.P. Putnam & Son, 1868. First Edition . Hardcover. Collectible; G+. ...comprising a bill of fare or breakfast, dinner, and tea, for every day in the year; with an Appendix, containing recipes for pickles and sauces." 1st edition, 12mo, green cloth, 134 pages, [10] pages publisher adverts (these are bound in out of order and mispaginated]. The book has been professionally repaired: a cloth reback. Condition: GOOD+ : binding is now tight, some light spotting and a few tiny tears to the endpapers, some typical browing to pages, light scattered spotting, a faint damp stain at bottom page edge throughout book, a light brownish damp stain at hinge through part of the book, a few pages have a crease and page 119 has a 1" closed tear at margin, otherwise the book is quite clean, and a nice copy of this uncommon early cookbook. "The design of this Manual is to suggest to ladies, without the trouble of THINKING [in italics], what is seasonable for the table, each day of the week, and how it shall be cooked..." [ from the Preface]...heaven help the world if we should actually THINK in the kitchen... An uncommon / scarce title.
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- Bookseller
- Bygone Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16355
- Title
- What shall we eat? a manual for housekeepers.
- Author
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible; G+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam & Son
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1868
- Weight
- 0.00
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cookbooks / Cookery / Culinary Arts;
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Bygone Books
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Bluffton, South Carolina
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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