Venus in the Kitchen
by Bey, Pilaff
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Viking Press, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. Full title: Venus in the Kitchen (or Love's Cookery Book). No dust jacket. Filled with interesting recipes guaranteed to horrify any vegan. Faded blue cloth boards, with gray cloth at spine. Small pictorial design in pink on the front board of a cupid holding a serving dish. Boards are stained front and back, with darker staining on outer edges. Bumped corner tips, wearing to cloth on bottom of boards. Crumpled head and heel of spine. Pages are age-toned, and darker toning on the outer edges of paste downs and end pages. Pages fall open in the gutters of each signature segment, but all remain well attached to the binding. Outside text block is yellowed. 192 pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quirky Used Books & More (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 220915002
- Title
- Venus in the Kitchen
- Author
- Bey, Pilaff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 1.13 lbs
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...