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Trader Vic's Pacific Island Cookbook, with Side Trips to Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Texas
by Trader Vic; Harlow, Bruce (Illustrator); Low, Wing (Illustrator)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1968. Book Club Edition (BCE) . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Harlow, Bruce; Low, Wing. Classic cookbook by the king of tiki cuisine, in 287 pages, containing 300 recipes for food & drink from 18 different locales, well- illustrated throughout with 20 color photos (B.Harlow) & 70+ line drawings (W. Low). A BCE (book club edition, so designated on bottom front DJ flap) of the First Edition, fourth printing, from 1968, this hardcover has burnt-orange cloth-covered boards with a black cloth-wrapped spine, embossed tiki design to front cover, gilt lettering to spine. Condition is VG: very clean, save for light handling soil to outside page edges. Binding secure & straight, pages white with age-appropriate tanning around all edges. NO writing/underlining/highlighting; not ex-lib. Only flaw is mild-moderate rubbing to extremities, heaviest along bottom edges & corners. The unclipped DJ is all present, but only Fair: with heavy edgewear & chipping & creasing. Nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock'' images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Seller
- Gargoyle Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 021143
- Title
- Trader Vic's Pacific Island Cookbook, with Side Trips to Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Texas
- Author
- Trader Vic; Harlow, Bruce (Illustrator); Low, Wing (Illustrator)
- Illustrator
- Harlow, Bruce; Low, Wing
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition (BCE)
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- TROPICAL HAWAIIAN POLYNESIAN TIKI FOOD PARTY DRINK RECIPES COOK BOOK COOKING ISLAND TROPICS LUAU
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hawaiiana/Other Islands;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
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Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
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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...
- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Chipping
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- New
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- Book Club Edition
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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