The Household Gas Cookery Book.
by Edden, Miss Helen; Moser, Mrs. N
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Hobart: Hobart Gas Company, 1905. Australian ed.. Hardback small octavo, no jacket, good condition, red cloth cover (gilt lettering front cover & spine faded), few black & white adverts, light blue thin card advert at front, endpapers & edges lightly foxed, pages lightly toned, spine little faded, few marks & stains covers, colour loss top section rear cover (some rubbing), some edgewear. 288 pp. From the title page: "How to use a Gas Cooking Range, Hygiene of Gas Cooking, Gas Cooking Stoves and Rangers, How to Read the Menu, Cook's Vocabulary." The many recipes show a window into early cooking with most of the dishes being english. (Original published in U.K. The scarce Australian edition. No date, but about 1905.).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40526
- Title
- The Household Gas Cookery Book.
- Author
- Edden, Miss Helen; Moser, Mrs. N
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Australian ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hobart Gas Company
- Place of Publication
- Hobart
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- cooking, cookery, cuisine, cookbooks, australia, tasmania, hobart, collectible, collectable
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
Parcels posted within Australia by Australia Post. Overseas parcels from Australia posted by Air Mail with full tracking (about 10 to 30 days delivery, but delays in post possible). Expertly wrapped. Genuine guarantee. We request extra postage for heavy books.
About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
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