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Selections from 'Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine' by Alexandre Dumas. Who knew? This is a very unusual book, quite rare and collectible. Printed in Great Britain.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1948. 308 pages. Brodart protected cover. . Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. History.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1898. 472 pages. Some wear inside cover....binding loose from first flyleaf, which is gone. Bookplate inside cover. Rest of book is in remarkably good shape for being 115 years old. Gilt titling on spine and front pictoral cover. . Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hugh M. Eaton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1957. 462 pages. Brodart protected cover. Illustrated with 7 maps and 8 pages of photographs. . Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Civil War History.

D. Appleton and Company, 1867. 301 pages.. Complete in one volume, with illustrations. Solid. Double column pages. Slight wear.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Historical Fiction.

London, U.K.: J.M. Dent & Sons 300 pages. Everyman's Library # 730.. First Edition. Normal wear. Blue cloth. Gilt titles and decoration.. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fiction.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun ( Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man)". 264 pages.. Solid. Clean. Flyleaf detached from title page, but all pages still bound. A great collector's item and a rare find. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A.B. Walker. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fiction.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1897. 515 pages. A Tale of the Time of Nero. Book is in remarkably good shape for being 116 years old. Clear titling on spine and front pictoral cover. Foxing slightly present on inside cover, binding, flyleafs disjoined.. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by M. De Lipman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.

1935 First Edition - Hardcover/Dustjacket. Brodart protected cover.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Compnay, 1935. 672 pages.. Measures 7 1/2" x 10". Bookblock is solid, but there is very bad chipping found on the spine. Cover is disbound for three inches at the top front cover. From there on all pages are bound well, none missing, and really in pretty good condition. Pages are crisp and clean. It's a First Edition, thus the still high-end price for a collector's item. Someone adept at re-binding can have themselves a wonderful book after a little attention. After all, it is "Lawrence of Arabia." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. History.

New York: The Viking Press, 1954. 273 pages. Price clipped. Really a very nice copy of the First Edition. Clean, well bound, no marks in book block or writing. Light -yellow-brown boards with title on front cover in red. The dust jacket is actually very nice save for the price clipping. One very small rip which I very carefully tape-repaired from the inside.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Viking Press, 1947. 312 pages. Clean, well bound, someone did write "March 1947" on the first fly leaf. Light brown boards with title on front cover in gilt. The dust jacket is pretty good save for the some chipping on the DJ fold edges, and the spine top corners. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.