All About Coffee
New York: The Tea & Coffee Journal Company, 1935. Limited edition. Color frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations in text. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xiv, 818 pages. Very good in a good dust jacket. Bound in light brown cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, endpaper maps. Prior owner name on title page, a few bumps to fore corners. Jacket has a 1 1/2" x 2 1/4" chip at bottom edge of upper joint fold, some old tape repairs to rear panel, and other edge chips and tears.
The first independent work to fully cover all aspects of coffee, including the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social, and artistic. Everything from early coffee drinking to the pharmacology of coffee to its appearances in literature. Full of information and well illustrated with photographs and other illustrations. Contains a dictionary of coffee, an extensive coffee bibliography, and a coffee thesaurus. Fully indexed.
This is copy #30 in an edition of 100, signed by Ukers on limitation page.
Item #1103
Price: $500