Up to Date Waitress (74 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Pictorial brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Moderate edgewear and rubbing; minor soil; spine ends and corners bumped and starting to fray. Text block moderately foxed. Binding shaken and tender in places; ffep somewhat roughly excised with a small corner piece of front pastedown also missing. Interior lightly toned and moderately foxed. Half-tone engravings of tables, prepared dishes, appliances, etc. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 148 pp.…

Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. New Edition. Boards are shelf worn spotted, and corners slightly bumped. Spine is loose.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Gray cloth over boards with illustrative black and white stamping to covers and white lettering on front cover, black on spine. Title page dated 1929, copyright page dated 1922. 184 pages. Book is in good condition. Some wear to covers, particularly at edges and hinges. Spine is slightly toned with a few white stains. Binding is strong. Inscription written on half-title page in black ink. Pages are clean and unmarked. Overall sturdy and free of marks, tears, or bumps. Frontispiece features photographic portrait of a waitress dressed for dinner. Several other black and white photographs throughout.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. No DJ. First Edition. Rubbed on ends and sides of spine and on corners, lightly surface smudged, tissue from title page laid in, occasional smudge and vertical pencil mark in the outside margin, top half of photo removed on pages 14, 73, 85, full photo missing on page 69, photo loose at page 90, writing in red ink on bottom edge of last page. Overall, very good minus. A guide for the household 'waitress', who's "value largely depends upon the number of things one knows how to do well. The waitress, who understands the composition of food, the underlying principles of cookery and cleaning, the proper construction of menus, and who has had training of the reasoning powers and judgement that is incidental to such knowledge, has gained thereby a breadth of mind and quickness of perception, which fit her to meet any emergency that may arise." [From the Preface].…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. The Up-To-Date Waitress. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. In English.

PF. Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Original edition. Good condition with wear.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Third edition, hardcover, has a mild lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a touch of creasing to the first and last several pages, faint sunning to the spine, and some rubbing with a few small spots and smudges to the covers, otherwise a solid, tight Very Good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New Edition 1923 by the editor of the Boston Cooking-School Magazine. Illustrated green cloth cover, with black-and-white images throughout. Minor wear to covers and edges concordant with age; previous owner's bookplate on front end paper; interior clean and bright.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. " Illustrated with half-tone Engravings of Tables, Prepared Dishes, Appliances, Etc.". First Edition. Matching dates to title page and copyright page. Published April, 1906. Pictorial , olive cloth coved boards with gilt lettering and design to the spine. Frontispiece with tissue guard. This copy is VERY GOOD. Exterior is rich; gilt is bright; corners and spine ends modestly bumped. Inside has prior owner name to top of FEP. Scattered light pencil underlining. Tightly bound. 4 pages of ads to the rear. Author was the Boston Cooking School Magazine Editor at the time.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Minor edgewear, mildly bumped corners. Decorative Olive green hardcover with picture of waitress on front. Book is tight, sound, interior is clean. There are a few pages with water marks near edges. Fascinating engravings on formality! Email for a picture. Ships Fast. Engravings (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New Edition. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1923. New Edition. Very Good+/Good. Very clean decorated American trade binding in original dust jacket. Brown-olive cloth boards with cream and black decoration, white lettering on cover, black lettering and small decoration on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with half-tone engravings of tables, prepared dishes, appliances, etc. Preface by the author. 184 pages. Dust jacket has large edge chips, a few closed edge tears, but clean and attractive in archival quality mylar cover. A peek into what life was like in households with staff in the 1920's. Duties of the wait staff; the dining room and the pantry and their furnishings; care of the pantry and dining room; styles of serving meals; afternoon tea; rules of good service; carving; picnic baskets and traveler's lunch; care of lamps; care of sleeping rooms; serving meals without a maid (!).…

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book provides guidance on serving meals for waitresses, whether in the home or in a professional setting, from formal sit-down dinners to informal breakfast menus. The author emphasizes that one's value as a waitress depends on the number of things one knows how to do well, and she instructs readers in the wide range of skills necessary to serve meals professionally. Additionally, she provides valuable instruction on the care and cleaning of a dining room, its furnishings, and its tools, offering tips for the daily and weekly care of these items, as well as techniques for cleaning glassware, silverware, and table linens. Through her detailed explanations of formal versus informal meal services, her thoughtful advice on preserving the polish on valuable dining furniture, and her insight into the significance of well-trained waitstaff, the author makes clear that serving meals is both an art and an important component of hospitality. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Light brown cloth over boards with pictorial in white and black of waitress in dinning room probably by one of the decorative designers (no logo). Black lettering on spine. Illustrated with half-tone engravings of tables prepared dishes, appliances, etc. throughout text. Slight shelf wear on spine ends otherwise a very good, tight, clean copy. 184 pgs. …

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Condition: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly .

Condition: Good. Good condition. Pages foxed. (home economics, household employees, united states, waitresses ).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo. Frontispiece and 50 illustrations. Original pictorial olive cloth stamped in white and black with a maid standing in the foreground, a table and a buffet in the background (light foxing at edges). Very good. 184 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. An attractive pictorial cloth binding.…