All about Coffee
by UKERS, WILLIAM H
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very good. Moderate rubbing to crown and foot of spine; covers moderately soiled. Spine lettering dull. Lacking dust jacket. Bin
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1935. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Moderate rubbing to crown and foot of spine; covers moderately soiled. Spine lettering dull. Lacking dust jacket. Binding square and sound; text clean and unmarked.. 4to. 7.5 x 10.5 in. xiv, 818 pp. Brown buckram, titles in gilt, in cream dust jacket printed in brown; endpaper maps. With 800 black & white illustrations, 4 color plates, including frontispiece. 'Here for the first time have been assembled, in their right order, all the essential facts about coffee.' First published in 1922, here is an independent, complete, & authoritative work, fully covering all phases of coffee and 'intending to appeal to the general reader as well as those directly associated with coffee'. This is the second, revised edition, inscribed by author WILLIAM H. UKERS 'with affectionate greetings', New York, 1941.
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- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1308
- Title
- All about Coffee
- Author
- UKERS, WILLIAM H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good. Moderate rubbing to crown and foot of spine; covers moderately soiled. Spine lettering dull. Lacking dust jacket. Bin
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
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