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All About Coffee
by Ukers, William H[arrison]. (1873-1945)
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- Signed
- Condition
- Very good in a good dust jacket. Bound in light brown cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, endpaper maps.
- Seller
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Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Tea & Coffee Journal Company, 1935. Limited edition. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xiv, 818 pages. Very good in a good dust jacket. Bound in light brown cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, endpaper maps. Prior owner name on title page, a few bumps to fore corners. Jacket has a 1 1/2" x 2 1/4" chip at bottom edge of upper joint fold, some old tape repairs to rear panel, and other edge chips and tears.. Color frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations in text. The first independent work to fully cover all aspects of coffee, including the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social, and artistic. Everything from early coffee drinking to the pharmacology of coffee to its appearances in literature. Full of information and well illustrated with photographs and other illustrations. Contains a dictionary of coffee, an extensive coffee bibliography, and a coffee thesaurus. Fully indexed.<br /> <br /> This is copy #30 in an edition of 100, signed by Ukers on limitation page.
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- Bookseller
- Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1103
- Title
- All About Coffee
- Author
- Ukers, William H[arrison]. (1873-1945)
- Illustrator
- Color frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations in text
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over boards. Quarto. xiv, 818 pages
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in a good dust jacket. Bound in light brown cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, endpaper maps.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited edition
- Publisher
- The Tea & Coffee Journal Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- coffee, caffeine, beverages, food and drink, cafes, agriculture
- Bookseller catalogs
- History & Politics; Americana; Science & Transportation;
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About the Seller
Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Annapolis, Maryland
About Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
We buy and sell quality used and out-of-print books, with an emphasis on Americana, Military and Naval History, and Nautical material. But we have many good books in a variety of subjects. We are located in historic Annapolis, Maryland.
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