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Cake Icing and Decorating
by Bowring, Jean
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Melbourne, Australia: Colorgravure Publications, 1955. 1st Edition Seventh printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Melbourne, Australia: Colorgravure Publications, no date (but circa 1955). Stated seventh impression (printing). Laid-in little printed slip explaining what "Copha" is. Profusely illustrated with plenty of color photo plates and even more B&W photos. Tall octavo, color photo-illustrated jacket, buff cloth boards with silver device on cover and silver imprinting on spine, illustrated endpapers, 159 pp. See scans. A Near Fine book which is Fine but for the graceful notations by Myrtle ford on the ffep verso and its opposed half-title page, in a better than Very Good jacket which is price-clipped and shows light roughening at the top front (see scans). Contents gracefully toned, as they will be in any copy which hasn't been vacuum-sealed. I can't make the things they make in this book. I can only buy them. L-fltschc1
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010448
- Title
- Cake Icing and Decorating
- Author
- Bowring, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition Seventh printing
- Publisher
- Colorgravure Publications
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne, Australia
- Date Published
- 1955
- Pages
- 159
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- cookbook, cake, baking General, Cakes
Terms of Sale
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Baldwinsville, New York
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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