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Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea
by Harland, Marion [pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Alfred, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 459, [2] pages. Advertisements. Later printing, with the slight change in name of the publisher, which occurred in 1878. The second in the author's "Common Sense in the Household" series. Marion Harland was the pen name of Mary Virginia Terhune, a Virginia born novelist and author of non-fiction, mostly for women. She wrote a number of cookbooks and domestic works, and was the first woman elected to the Virginia Historical Society. Her daughter, Christine Terhune Herrick, was also the author of several cookbooks and other works. Internally shaken and with some signatures pulling loose. In publisher's green cloth, titled and decorated in black and green, with some rubbing to edges. Overall, near very good. With five handwritten recipes, on blank pages in the front and rear. With the ownership inscription of food historian and cookery re-enactor Marion Walke. [Bitting 214; Brown 2382; Cagle 326].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8396
- Title
- Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea
- Author
- Harland, Marion [pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1878
- Keywords
- cookbook, american cookbook, southern cooking, southern cookbook, virginia cookbook
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Alfred, Maine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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