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The Famous Cookery Cookbook
by Josephson, Gloria Agrin; Josephson, Barney
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Horizon Press, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Refregier, Anton. Red cloth spine over orange paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine with gilt decoration to front board, brown endpapers, 8-5/8" tall, 192 pp. Owner's bookplate to front endpaper, else near fine; dust jacket with one taped tear to top of front panel, moderate rubbing to white background, price intact. From the Greenwich Village restaurant The Cookery, the authors present recipes "to be prepared at home, where there are cooks, not chefs." The Cookery ran for thirty years, and had three locations. It closed & reopened in the mid-1980s under new ownership, although Barney Josephson remained a part owner.
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- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001919
- Title
- The Famous Cookery Cookbook
- Author
- Josephson, Gloria Agrin; Josephson, Barney
- Illustrator
- Refregier, Anton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Horizon Press
- Date Published
- 1963
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- cookbooks cookery gastronomy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cooking;
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About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
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Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Bookplate
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
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