Item #20987 All About Tea (SIGNED, 2 volumes). William H. Ukers.
All About Tea (SIGNED, 2 volumes)
All About Tea (SIGNED, 2 volumes)

All About Tea (SIGNED, 2 volumes)

New York: The Tea And Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1935. First Edition. Complete in two volumes. SIGNED by the author in Volume I. Small 4to. xiv, 559; vi, 568 pp. Chronology; Dictionary of Tea; Bibliography; Index. Color frontispiece in Vol. I; black & white frontispiece in Vol. II; illustrations throughout both volumes; maps. Green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering, map endpapers, in publisher's dustjackets. Books are in near fine condition (minor bumping to corners; light age toning to endpapers). The dustjackets are in good condition with chips, closed tears and scrapers; partial spine splitting along front joint of Vol. II; small loss to spine heads). Item #20987

The definitive work on tea by William Ukers, regarded as the leading protagonist and the best informed writer. In the gathering of material for this work, Ukers made two trips to India, Ceylon, Jave, Sumatra, China, Japan and Formosa, and spent over two years researching in the principal libraries and museums of Europe and America... the first independent work fully covering all phases of tea; a super-encyclopdeia - comprehensive, authoritative - the definitive work on tea.

Price: $950.00

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