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The Savoy Cocktail Book
by Craddock, Harry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Constable and Company, 1930. 287pp, [1]. Original quarter cloth and printed boards. Recased, minor abrasions to gilt on board to upper and lower covers, worn to edges. Internally a couple of instances of soiling, a former owner's name to front pastedown, and another former owner's name and address also to front pastedown, but generally quite bright and clean. With the errata slip to page 25. Signed by the author, with his often used 'Here's how' inscription to the reverse of the dedication leaf. First Edition. Full Morocco. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Rumbold, Gilbert. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Temple Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001549
- Title
- The Savoy Cocktail Book
- Author
- Craddock, Harry
- Illustrator
- Rumbold, Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Constable and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Drink, Cocktails, Savoy, Recipes, Alcohol, Cooking, Cookery, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed;
Terms of Sale
Temple Rare Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Temple Rare Books
Biblio member since 2012
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Temple Rare Books
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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...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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