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Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd 03/10/2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0224061380ISBN 13: 9780224061384
Seller: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Published by Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 0224061380ISBN 13: 9780224061384
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Toenails cut while dining, meals served to wax effigies of the dead, napkins concealing singing birds - these are just a few of the more exotic aspects of everyman at the table. From the stupendous banquets of the Ancient Babylonians, Feast covers five millennia of formal eating. Sharing a meal, in particular a grand one, has always been a complex social mechanism for uniting and dividing people. Such an event could signal peace, a marriage, a victory, a coronation or a funeral, to name but a few. The feast was a vehicle for display and ostentation, for flattering and influencing people as well as providing a theatre in which to exercise the art of conversation and the display of manners. Feast offers a fascinating and, at times, a highly unusual mirror of society as it evolves. It gathers together for the first time all the threads which contributed to the phenomenon of the celebratory meal: the people, the clothes, the food, the setting, the action and its surrounding circumstances, for in the consumption of food can be found the origins of every kind of theatre. Taking the reader from the elegancies of the Roman villa to the austerities of the monastic refectory, from the splendours of the Renaissance banquet to the demands of the Victorian dinner patty, Feast sets out to answer the basic questions of our eating habits, and the answers are never less than surprising. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2002
ISBN 10: 0224061380ISBN 13: 9780224061384
Seller: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. All orders are dispatched the following working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we have over 500,000 books in stock. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2002
ISBN 10: 0224061380ISBN 13: 9780224061384
Seller: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. All orders are dispatched the following working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we have over 500,000 books in stock. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd 03/10/2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0224061380ISBN 13: 9780224061384
Seller: Bahamut Media, Reading, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.
Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2002
ISBN 10: 0224061380ISBN 13: 9780224061384
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed First Edition. Type: Book N.B. Light rubbing to corners of boards, spine and D/J.