Fine Online Estate Sale Auction, Private Residence Honey Brook, PA
Lot 183:
Description
A collection of various hardcover and trade paperback volumes focused on culinary arts, interior design, health, spirituality, and gardening. Notable culinary titles include Bobby Flay’s Grill It! published by Potter, The Louie’s Backyard Cookbook by Bruce Weinstein, and The Happy Herbivore Cookbook by Lindsay S. Nixon. Spirituality and self-help selections feature The Power of Now and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, The Laws of Spirit by Dan Millman, and So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. Gardening and home references include The House Plant Expert by Dr. D.G. Hessayon, Crockett’s Flower Garden, and Styled by Emily Henderson. Vintage interest items include a red cloth-bound volume titled The Wanamaker Diary 1927 and The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. The volumes are primarily bound in publisher’s cloth or pictorial boards, with several modern hardcovers retaining original dust jackets. The books are presented in standard octavo and quarto formats.
Condition report:
The collection shows light shelf wear consistent with age and use. Most modern volumes appear in good to very good condition with minor edge wear to dust jackets. Older volumes, specifically the 1927 Wanamaker Diary and the vintage cookbook, exhibit more pronounced spine tanning, rubbing to the boards, and edge wear. Page blocks of older titles show natural tanning and light foxing. Dust jackets, where present, show occasional surface rubbing and minor closed tears at the extremities.
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