VENUS IN THE KITCHEN: Or Love's Cookery Book
by Bey, Pilaff
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1953. (xi)+192pp. with illustrations. Original blue cloth covers w/ gray cloth spine. Bumps on spine ends. Bumps and wear on bottom and top edges and corners. Staining on spine. Staining on inside front cover and back covers. Recipe book of collection of aphrodisiac recipes.. First Edition. Quarter Buckram. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Bruce Roberts. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 180CB
- Title
- VENUS IN THE KITCHEN: Or Love's Cookery Book
- Author
- Bey, Pilaff
- Illustrator
- Bruce Roberts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Cooking, Recipes, Cuisine, Cookbook, Food
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cookbooks/Food;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
Biblio member since 2007
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Edges
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- Buckram
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....