A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd & Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man or Beast
by M.F.K. Fisher
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1961]. First Edition Stated. 12mo; publisher's cloth-backed decorative boards in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [8],178pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including small closed tear at top margin of rear panel, faint damp spot to upper panel not affecting boards, spine panel a bit faded, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy.
The beloved food writer's collection of folk recipes, from horse dung water "for Agues and feavers" (p. 60) to Dame Lethiculear's "Green Ointment that cured Lady Probyn's Coachman's Back" (p. 122).
The beloved food writer's collection of folk recipes, from horse dung water "for Agues and feavers" (p. 60) to Dame Lethiculear's "Green Ointment that cured Lady Probyn's Coachman's Back" (p. 122).
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29078
- Title
- A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd & Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man or Beast
- Author
- M.F.K. Fisher
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1961
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Washington, District of Columbia
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