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New York: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Heavy brown cloth hardcover, 1st edition, with gilt titles. A good plus copy. Worn at the corners and spine extremeties, with bending and discoloration. General shelfwear to the board edges, and some darkening to the brown cloth from age and use. Soiling and scuffing to the text block edges. Hinges are solid and the binding is strong. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown appears to be the only marking in the volume.The pages themselves are clean and bright with magazine style thickness. A mix of colorized and black and white illustrations and photos throughout. 796 pp., including a robust bibliography and index. This volume chronicles everything from the agriculture and propagation side of the industry, to the commerce and trade that introduced coffee to Europe, England, and North America. Difficult to find - and this copy is more attractive than most.

Chicago: Argonaut, Inc., Publishers, 1969. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. Black cloth hardcover with gilt spine titles, lacking dustjacket. Stated first printing of the reprinted edition (unchanged from the 1891 edition) = first thus. A good copy with bending at the lower front corner and upper spine tip. Minor soiling to the dark boards. Interior is clean and unmarked in a solid binding. 157 pp., with 36 pages of aftermatter. Indexed, some few black and white examples at rear. Specific history of Fitzwilliam Museum holdings of engraved gems.

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Black cloth hardcover 1st edition in dustjacket. A like new copy, clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is very good with minor ruffling to the edges of the panels. 204 pp., indexed. Faye's Books

Maryland: University Press Of America, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Red hardcover 1st lacking dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, "To the Glen & Rhoda Loves - a small attempt toward repaying American generosity with observations not soured by anger, marred by rage or aspiration. Heinz." A near fine copy with minor bending at the spine tips. Clean, tight and square. 140 pp., indexed.

Manila: Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Foundation, Inc., 1993. First printing. Hardcover. Good/good. Signed and inscribed on the front free-endpaper by former Philippine president Corazon C. Aquino, "To John Moseley, With every good wish! Corazon C. Aquino June 10, 1995." Oblong quarto black hardcover with gilt titles to cover and spine. Stated first prining, in dustjacket. A good copy but with bumping to the corners and a heavy scrape to the rear cover, and the rear panel of the dustjacket. Interior is much better, clean and unmarked in a solid binding. Dustjacket is also good in spite of the rear panel scrape, with general ruffling and shelf-wear to the panel edges. 149 pp., filled with black and white photos of Senator Aquino, who was assassinated by the Marcos regime in the early 1980s, nicely signed by his widow, and Philippine political powerhouse Cory Aquino.