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Seller: David McCord Bookseller, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Harper: NY, 1894. Lightly rubbed soiled hardback. Front free end paper and title page have some very light damp staining at the edges. Women.
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1894
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
[vii] 131p., original grey cloth. A later undated printing.
Published by Harper & Bros, New York, 1903
Seller: sonalsorises, Los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Later Printing.
Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, NEW YORK, 1894
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Back GREY. Condition: GOOD. FIRST ED. Bumped corners, yellowing pages.General wear and rubbed cover. Tight binding. Bookplate.Ex library. Black gilt on cover/Spine, DATE PUBLISHED: 1894 EDITION: FIRST ED 131.
Published by Harper, NY, 1912
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
12mo, pp. 155. Bound in drab green cloth stamped in white (stamping gone from the spine, some gone from the cover), a very good tight copy. Bitting 446 & Brown 2527 (1894 edition), Includes directions for Serving meals to the table. Picnics. Care of the dining room and pantry. Washing dishes. Care of siver. Lamps. Carving. In the invalid's room. A servant's contract etc. New edition, revised and enlarged by C. S. D.
Published by Harper & Brothers, 1894
First Edition
Hardcover. 12mo. Condition: Fair. Petite hardcover in full blue cloth with stamped blue rug on cover and titling in red on cover and spine. Small label of a waitress on spine. Book remains in fair condition- securely bound. 131p. Covers are worn around edges and scuffed over spine. Front fly has been removed. Table of contents and first page detached but included. A large inscription is penned to dedication and few notes to title. Content is overall unmarked aside from few minor chips around edges as pages have oxidized.
Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1894
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. [8], 131pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's decorated blue cloth. Lightly rubbed. Endpapers browned, book-label of Peter Stewart Young to FEP. The first edition of a popular culinary vade mecum, providing clear instruction on the proper presentation of meals. Size: 8vo.
Published by Harper and Brothers, New York, 1894
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Early Printing without date at title page. Small octavo, original cloth, printed dustjacket, 131 pages. Uncommon in likely 19th Century dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket.
Published by Harper and Brothers, New York, 1912
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
New Edition, Revised and Enlarged by C. S. D. Small octavo, original green printed cloth, printed dustjacket, 155 pages. Uncommon in dustjacket. Includes a short chapter on serving wine and liquors. "A well trained waitress is one familiar with various methods and willing to adapt herself to the rules of the mistress she is serving whether or not they conform in all respects to those she followed in previous situations. Glasses for Madeira or port are placed on the table with the dessert. After the coffee comes cordials and liqueurs. Chartreuse, creme de menthe and the like A waitress brings two handsome liqueur bottles and some tiny glasses on a salver and standing at the left of a guest names the liqueurs and pours the one chosen. Some glasses must be filled with finely shaved ice as when cremes are chosen they are usually served glace". Very Good in Good only, edge chipped dustjacket, three square inches of loss at top rear panel, inch chip at top spine.