All About Coffee

New York: The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1935. New York: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, 1935. Stated second edition. First edition 1922. 4to. xiv, 818. Brown cloth binding with gold decoration (coffee maker and beans), gilt titles. Decorated endpapers, brown Picture Coffee Map of the World, showing coffee-producing countries, world's greatest coffee drinkers and tea-dominated areas. Color frontispiece -- coffee branches, flowers, and fruit. Contains preface to second edition, acknowledgements, foreword, history of coffee, cultivation and factory preparation, scientific discussion of coffee (etymology, botany, microscopy, chemistry, pharmacology), coffee commerce and merchandising, social manners and customers, coffee in literature and fine arts. Appendices include Chronology of Coffee, Dictionary of Coffee, Coffee Bibliography and Coffee Thesaurus, followed by an index. Tiny bump to one corner. Stain shadow on half-title that appears to be from material stored in book. No writing inside. Hinges sound. Appears unread. An extraordinary book for the coffee-lover. Very good condition.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Illustrated. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.