Madeira.
by CROFT-COOKE, RUPERT:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Putnam. London. 1961 1st edition.. Tall 8vo. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Back slightly darkened with small marks. Price clipped). Nice extra presentation page added before title page by Blandy presented to Ronald Booker. Inside a clean and tight copy. 224pp. With b/w chapter headings. An appreciation and history of the wine Madeira including the processes, man made and natural, that help to develop the particular excellencies of the various types from grape to glass.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92421
- Title
- Madeira.
- Author
- CROFT-COOKE, RUPERT:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Putnam. London. 1961 1st edition.
- Keywords
- COOKERY, WINE and DRINKS RUPERT CROFT-COOKE, Madeira, appreciation, history, wine, grape,
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Gilt
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- Dustwrapper
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.