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The Chinese Cook Book
by Yee Hong, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/Fair
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Crown Publishers, New York, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/Fair. Seventh impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 280 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears, and is foxed here and there. Previous owner's signature, pencil. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. This book is filled with recipes considered to represent the best traditional Chinese cooking. It is written by a chef that has set about including recipes that aren't known anymore. All recipes (500 of them) are easy to follow and include ingredients that were readily available in the US in 1952. The book is rated as fair condition. However it is strongly bound and the dust jacket is sound although has some stains. A good copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; China; 1950s; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10067. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10067
- Title
- The Chinese Cook Book
- Author
- Yee Hong, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- BZDB137 wallace yee hong, chinese, cooking, food, recipes, 1952 Cooking, Wine & Dining; China; 1950s; Unbranded Yee Hong, Wallace The Chinese Cook Book
Terms of Sale
Great Southern Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Great Southern Books
Biblio member since 2012
King River, Western Australia
About Great Southern Books
We are an independent online bookstore and have been in business since 2012.
Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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