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Eating for Strength
by M.L. Holbrook
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus or Better/no jacket
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Wood & Holbrook, 1875. First Edition. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt decoration and black ornamentation in blind on front cover. Very Good Plus or Better/no jacket. Great little book: the science of eating, recipes for wholesome cookery, recipes for wholesome drinks and answers to ever recurring questions. 157 pages plus great advertisements. book 7.25 by 5 inches in width, slight cracks near inner hinges, book is tight and square, nice 19th century binding, rear panel in blind, No previous owner bookplate or writing, clean period brown clay endpapers. Scarce.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3754
- Title
- Eating for Strength
- Author
- M.L. Holbrook
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's brown cloth with gilt decoration and black ornamentation in blind on front cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus or Better
- Jacket Condition
- no jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Wood & Holbrook
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1875
- Keywords
- Cookery, health, 19th century cooking
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- Bookplate
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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