Italy on a Platter. Recipes for Gourmets
by Stearns, Osborne Putnam
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Menlo Park: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1965. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Tan cloth binding, illustrated on front and back in red and black; titling in black on the spine. Clean text; 207 pages, indexed. Some light spotting to the top page-ends and there is a spot (spill?) at the top of page 181. Else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is complete and nicely bright, but it shows some wrinkling and rubbing at the margins. In an archival plastic protector. [NOTE: due to a computer crash, this title may also appear with the inventory # 000764]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Marylin Ward. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005779
- Title
- Italy on a Platter. Recipes for Gourmets
- Author
- Stearns, Osborne Putnam
- Illustrator
- Marylin Ward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Ward Ritchie Press
- Place of Publication
- Menlo Park
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cooking Literature;
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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