Publicado por No printer's device, apparently Dorchester/Boston, Mass.; 1902., 1902
Librería: C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, Alemania
78 (2) pages, 4 (at least 3 photographic) plates; 4 both-side printed chromolithographic cardbords between pages 16/17, 40/41 (2 cardboards) and 64/65. - Publisher's artistically embossed colour-illustrated stapled wrappers with embossed titleprint at front- and -gold-medals at rearcover; small-8vo.(ca. 14,8 x 9 cm). *** FIRST EDITION; THE VERY RARE AMERICAN ORIGINAL (most bibliographies only refer to and praise the canadian reprint); contains 'Choice Recipes by Miss Maria Parloa, specially prepared for Walter Baker & . . .'; 'Recipes specially prepared by Miss Elizabeth Kevil Burr'; 'Recipes from other noted Teachers' (Mrs. or Miss Rorer, Lincoln, Lemcke, Farmer, Salzbacher, Robinson, Ewing, Hill, Bedford, Armstrong and Abel); 'State Recipes', 'Miscellaneous Recipes', 'Some Notes on the Food Value of Cocoa and Chocolate', 'Walter Baker & Co.'s Cocoa and Chocolate Preperations' and Indexes to all sections. --- Condition, acceptably used: Wrapper slightly rubbed and with brown spot (chocolate?, ca. 2 x 5 cm) at bottom of frontcover, offsettig but quickly diminishuing to needlehead-size until page 27; another hardly visible spot at frontcover left-center is slightly offsetting to inner frontcover, titlepage and first textpage; lower outer corner at frontcover with greater double-dogear incl. a very short (ca. 2-3 mm) tear close to the sharp-corner, some textpages with smallest dogear; last chromolithogr. cardboard with horizontal kink, ca. 2 cm parallel to spine; upper outer corner of rearpanel with smallest material-loss (ca. 4 x 3 mm); overall a very good copy of the fragile publication.