Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Owner notes on front endpapers, pages . toned, jacket sunned and heavily tattered. 1944. Revised Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Navy cloth titled in gilt on front boards and spine. Black and white photograph plates. Bitting p. 8 (1934 edition) , Cagle 23. Vintage cookbook of appetizers, canapes, and savouries to "stimulate and sharpen the appetite", from Finnan Haddie Balls to Pastry Stars with Caviar to Spanish Canapes. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 141 pages .

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Bookseller: Old Saratoga Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 54257
Title: A Book of Hors D'Oeuvres
Author: Allen, Lucy G
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Owner notes on front endpapers, pages toned, jacket sunned and heavily tattered
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Revised Edition; Later Printing
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1944
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: Appetizers, 1940s Cookbooks, HORS D'oeuvres
Bookseller catalogs: Cooking and Gastronomy;

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Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...