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Proper Tea: An English Collection of Recipes and Anecdotes
by Joanna Isles
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0861886682
- ISBN 13
- 9780861886685
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Proper Tea: An English Collection of Recipes and Anecdotes, devised and illustrated by Joanna Isles
Hardcover, 1987, first edition, published by Piatkus, London, 95 pages. Signed/inscribed on front free endpaper: "March 1988 For Jeremy + Linda to thankyou and as a preamble to a real Tea Dance..... with Best Wishes from Joanna".
In good condition. No dust jacket. Dark blue cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine. Light scuffing and marking but quite clean and firm. Some marking to page edges but quite clean. Page surfaces clean, no marginalia, underlining, etc. Final blank page has creased corner. See pictures for more information.
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- GN Books and Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-628
- Title
- Proper Tea: An English Collection of Recipes and Anecdotes
- Author
- Joanna Isles
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0861886682
- ISBN 13
- 9780861886685
- Publisher
- Piatkus Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1987
- Pages
- 95
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
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Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- Gilt
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