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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Strong Drink and Tobacco Smoke - The Structure, Growth, and Uses of Malt, Hops, Yeast, and Tobacco.

Vintage Cookery Books, 2015. Paperback. New. 114 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.27 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Forgotten Books, 2018-02-07. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Forgotten Books, 2018-02-07. Hardcover. Used: Good.

William Wood & Co. Used - Good. 8vo. Cloth, no dj. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. [xii] 71 numbered pp. + 10 plates and 53 pp. of publisher's advertisements. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. Spine sunned, scuffed; extensive rubbing at ends. Remnant of removed sticker at base of spine. Joints cracking at corners. Some scuffing to boards, rubbing at corners. Front hinge cracked; binding tender, but holding. Previous owner's bookplate and previous bookstore's sticker on front pastedown. Foxing throughout. Despite its flaws, a nice copy with otherwise clean internals. Good.

1869. PRESCOTT, Henry P. STRONG DRINK AND TOBACCO SMOKE; the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco. With one hundred and sixty-seven original illustrations, drawn and engraved on steel. London: Macmillan and Co., 1869. First edition. Edited by T. H. Huxley. xii, 71 pp. of text, followed by a section of ten plates with [5] ff. of descriptive text, and 39 pp. of publisher's adv. 8vo., terra cotta cloth, gilt-stamped title at spine, deep blue coated endpapers. Ex library, with all the usual marks. Early ink ownership to half-title page. Faint foxing throughout, with some occasional thumbing in margins. Front hinge cracked, moderate soiling to cloth overall, rubbed at perimeters, but structurally sound and a serviceable copy.