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Imperial Cook Book, Revised Edition: A monitor for the American housewife in the dining room and kitchen, containing the choicest original and selected recipes for economical and practical housekeeping. [cover title: The International Cook Book]
by Townsend, Mrs. Grace
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Alfred, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Stockton, Cal: Occidental Publishing Co, 1894. Large octavo (25.2 x 19 cm.), 527 pages. Illustrated. Index. Stated Revised Edition; published under various titles, as the Dining Room & Kitchen (1891), and as The Star Cook Book (1894) issued by the Lone Star Pub. Co. of Texas. This copy is additionally titled, "The International Cook Book" on both the spine and the front cover. The publishers used various titles on a single cookbook text to appeal to as many different markets as possible. Text block age-toned. In black-stamped, marble-patterned white oil cloth with some rubbing and slight chipping to hinges, otherwise very good. Early pencil ownership inscription to free front paste-down, "Mrs. Y.H. Flint". [OCLC locates no copies with this Stockton imprint, and no copy with this cover title; Bitting, page 463 (different printing); not in Cagle].
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- Bookseller
- Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8561
- Title
- Imperial Cook Book, Revised Edition: A monitor for the American housewife in the dining room and kitchen, containing the choicest original and selected recipes for economical and practical housekeeping. [cover title: The International Cook Book]
- Author
- Townsend, Mrs. Grace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Occidental Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- Stockton, Cal
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- american cookbook, cookbook, oddity, housekeeping
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Alfred, Maine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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