Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody: an Invaluable Collection of about Eight Hundred Practical Recipes by Chase, A. W - 1866

Cleis Press, 2014. 8" X 5.5" in glossy, illustrated heavy paper covers. Minor shelf wear; small bump top corner; otherwise very nice, clean, tight, unmarked: NEAR FINE condition. 208pp FIRST EDITION Signed by Kelly Maher, one of the authors of this anthology.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

R.A. Beal, 1881. R.A. Beal, 1881, 8vo., 648 pages. Book bound in a dark grey cloth, illustrations. Book in good condition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

not provided , not provided. Reprint of 38th. Hardcover - leather-bound. Very Good. Very skillful facsimile, with green leather boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation matching original edition--Roman numberal "CCL" on spine. 384 p., clean and unmarked anywhere and only mildly age-toned, plus 19th c. ads on paste downs and end pages. Binding tight; minimal wear to boards.

R. A. Beal , 1874. Hardcover. Good. Leather boards; edges worn and scuffed; external hinges cracked; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; no jacket. Interior is clean and unmarked; 648 pages.

R. A. Beal, 1900. Hardcover. Good/Missing. Black cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; mild edge wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; no jacket. Internal hinges cracked; previous owner's name on free front endpaper; pages toned; interior is unmarked; 648 pages.

Ann Arbor, MI: Self-published, 1866. Scarce, relatively early edition: 1866 and "Thirty-eighth Edition" printed on title page. Preface is to the Tenth Edition. (The work was first published in 1856). FAIR. Internally pages are very good - clean and complete with light foxing and an occasional spot or small stain. Binding is worn and fragile - the cloth cover, very much faded, has 3 bands of ancient black tape across the spine; interior of front hinge is somewhat reinforced with brown tape. Rear hinge has cracked and is very loose. Boards are loose and there is split between gatherings towards the center of the book. The front free endpaper is missing and the first leaf, a portrait of Dr. Chase, has the brown tape running down left side of art. Reverse is an illustration depicting the University of Ann Arbor. Facing the Preface is an illustration of Dr. Chase's office building and there is also a diagram of the parts of a horse. Despite the flaws, this is a complete and very readable… Read More

USA: The Author. Good. Hardcover. 384 pages. 38th edition -tidy clean copy .

Paperback / softback. New.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: A.W. Chase, 1866. Thirty-eighth Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Thirty-eighth edition. Stained, sticker ghost on front board, ink name on front free endpaper verso. 1866 Hard Cover. xxxi, [2], 34-384, [2] pp. 6 3/4" x 4 3/4". Hoolihan-Atwater 587: "Chase attended courses of lectures in the medical department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1856-58), and claims to be a graduate the Electric Medical Institute in Cincinnati. In the preface he writes, 'The author, after having carried on the drug and grocery business for a number of years, read medicine, after being thirty-eight years of age, and graduated as a physician to qualify himself for the work he was undertaking; for, having been familiar with some of the recipes, adapted to these branches of trade, more than twenty years, he began in 'fifty-six'... to publish them in a pamphlet of only a few pages' (p. v). The first edition of this pamphlet, the predecessor of Dr.… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.