A Guide to Modern Cookery
by Escoffier, A
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
New York: McClure, Phillips and Company, 1907. First American Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. . 880pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Cover is heavily spotted but has very light wear, spine is faded but bright and clear, light foxing to preliminary pages, text is clean and binding is tight. This book, published by McClure, Phillips and Company of New York in 1907, is the First American Edition, published the same year as the first English edition published by William Heinemann in London the same year.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Bookshelf (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004586
- Title
- A Guide to Modern Cookery
- Author
- Escoffier, A
- Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- McClure, Phillips and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Pages
- 880
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cuisine Culinary "Auguste Escoffier" Restaurant Cooking
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cooking;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...