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The Gourmet Cookbook (2 Volume Set)
by Gourmet - The Magazine of Good Living
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394540301
- ISBN 13
- 9780394540306
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
NZ$66.07NZ$46.25
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About This Item
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984 Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1984. Hardcover. The books state 9th Printing 1981 for Volume I and Eighth Printing 1982 for Volume II with Gourmet Books as Publisher but the DJ gives Alfred A. Knopf as the Publisher with 8/84 date on the rear flap with different ISBNs (0394540301 and 039454031X) than the books (0933166001 and 093316601X). Books are tight, square, and unmarked. Book Conditions: Near Fine; light shelfwear to textblock bottom; Volume II has light foxing to textblock. DJs: Volume I is Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($27.50); slight edgewear and rubbing to panels; Volume II is Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light rubbing to panels. Brown leatherette boards and spines with gilt lettering and decorations on the spines and front boards. Decorated endpapers. 1651 pp (820 pp in Vol I and 831 pp in Vol II) 4to. A Classic for more than three decades-the first of Gourmet magazine's great cookbooks: 2500 choice recipes from the finest cuisines of the world; illustrated with 95 photographs in full color. The companion volume to the first Gourmet Cookbook: 2500 more recipes - culinary delights from the world's great cuisines. A treasure house of variety and inspiration for today's devoted cook; Illustrated with 95 photographs in full color. A clean very presentable set of books in Brodart mylar jackets. No International Shipping. Priority shipping will require additional postage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015961
- Title
- The Gourmet Cookbook (2 Volume Set)
- Author
- Gourmet - The Magazine of Good Living
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394540301
- ISBN 13
- 9780394540306
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- cooking, cuisine, cookbooks, food around the world, Gourmet Magazine, sophisticated people, fine cooking, fine dining, art of gastronomy,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cookbooks;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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...
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