The Beverly Cook Book and Housewife's Companion: A Collection of Tested Recipes for the Kitchen and Useful Information
by Thurston, Wm [William] A., Editor
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Beverly, Massachusetts: The Citizen Office, 1895. Published 1895. Collected Victorian era recipes published by the community of Beverly, Massachusetts, edited by the Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Includes local advertising throughout. Dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, advertising pastedowns, 103 pages plus memoranda pages and advertising. Covers rubbed and lightly spotted, extensive rubbing to spine with ends frayed and a few small chips along the joint edges, hinges internally repaired, sound text block, long closed tear to one page with no loss of text, a few margin spots, pages age-tone and a little brittle but clean and free from names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016675
- Title
- The Beverly Cook Book and Housewife's Companion: A Collection of Tested Recipes for the Kitchen and Useful Information
- Author
- Thurston, Wm [William] A., Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- The Citizen Office
- Place of Publication
- Beverly, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1895
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- COMMUNITY COOKBOOK BEVERLY MASSACHUSETTS VICTORIAN RECIPES COOKERY CUISINE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Food, Wine and Home Entertainment;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
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Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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