Handbook of Domestic Cookery
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
William Collins. Poor with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Title page missing. One colour plate missing? Heavy rubbing, staining and fading to boards. 1/2" chips to cloth at corners of boards. 1/4" chips to cloth at ends of spine. Gutters broken at endpapers. Binding shaky. A rough, used copy.; No date (title page missing), [c. 1880's]. Red cloth boards with decoration in black and gilt. Page dimensions: 186 x 122mm. 7 [of 8?] colour lithographed plates. The plates are numbered from I to VII, but are bound in a different order. Last text leaf has "William Collins and Company, Printers, Glasgow".; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5928
- Title
- Handbook of Domestic Cookery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- William Collins
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Poor
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- Gilt
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- Plate
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- Title Page
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
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