Golden Tips. A Description of Ceylon and its Great Tea Industry
by Henry W. Cave
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Shelbyville, Indiana, United States
Item Price
A$152.31A$114.23
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1900. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fully decorative gilt over white cloth with white cloth beveled edges and gilt lettering to the spine. All edges gilt. Green EPs. This copy is VG. Exterior is bright and clean with only a hint of wear. Gilt is bright. Interior has presentation BP from James B. Herndon ( Former Chairman of the American Hotel Association) to Cornell University. FEP has signs of removed pocket. FFEP has neat PO signature dated 1904. Page edges have faded "Hotel Administration Library" stamped. 214 Illustrations plus two maps. Frontispiece photograph of the author with tissue guard present, but loose. Text is only minimally toned. Herndon was also a former VP of Hilton Hotels as well as Treasurer of the Waldorf- Astoria. The entirety of his extensive book collection on cookery and culinary subjects was bequeathed to Cornell in 1953. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bailey Bonzo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002187
- Title
- Golden Tips. A Description of Ceylon and its Great Tea Industry
- Author
- Henry W. Cave
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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Bailey Bonzo Books
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
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