Page Smith and Charles Daniel (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. [xii], 380pp [marker stripe on top and bottom page edges] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover/Cloth. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex-Library First U.S. Edition. Green cloth; gilt cover decoration (rooster) and spine lettering. Decorated endpapers with repeating rooster pattern. With chapters on the origin of the chicken, chickens in fable and other writings, and the chicken in various historical settings, from ancient to modern times. Final chapters are "On Keeping Chickens,"--a step-by-step guide-- and "The Culinary Chicken (and Egg),: which includes twenty-one recipes. Three black-and-white illustrations. What is not included is discussion of progressive and increasingly humane chicken-rearing standards of the 21st century. Irregular moderate sunning of cover margins and head and tail of spine, corresponding to dust jacket loss. Library marks: spine lettering, bookplate affixed to inside front cover; sticker removal scar to rear endpaper; pocket strip inside rear cover. Jacket moderately worn, with large chips at head of spine, upper rear panel, and lower front cover; taped closed tear at upper front panel; spine label. Now protected in mylar.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ex-Library.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Book is lightly worn, rubbed, and soiled. Spine is mildly faded.