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The Vital Question and Our Navy, 1898
Fourth edition. Square octavo (24.5 x 20 cm). String-bound onion skin dust wrapper over red-printed wrappers; 65 pp.; two leaves of chromolithographs; photographic plates. A somewhat confounding title from the food faddist and inventor of shreeded wheat, Henry D. Perky. Includes 254 recipes with most including shredded wheat in some variety, a sample menu from Perky's New Era Cooking School in Worcester, MA, and chromolithographs of sample dishes. Perky follows this with an anti-war treatise and the opinions of fifty great men on war, along with photographs of naval ships and their respective crews. Soiling to slightly chipped dust wrapper; wrappers browned with some grazing and loss to one corner of front wrapper; chipping to fore-edge of rear wrapper; a Good+ copy. We haven't seen another copy with the onion skin dust wrapper.
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Pamphlet. 8 by 10 inches. 34 pages plus two chromolithograph illustrations. Recipes promoting the physical, moral, and spiritual benefits of a diet based on shredded wheat. Henry D. Perky (1843-1906) was the inventory of machinery for manufacturing what he called 'little whole wheat mattresses' and his Cereal Machine Company, including its New Era Cooking School, was eventually absorbed into the Nabisco conglomerate. The recipes were developed by Mrs. Harriet A. Higbee, the superintendent of the cooking school. Third edition. Very good in printed brown, string-tied wrappers. Light creasing and wear to covers; a few recipes with pencil tick marks in the margins. Reprinted many times, but 19th century editions are uncommon.
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VITAL QUESTION AND OUR NAVY, 1898
Published by ***** Self Published ***** (1897), Phillipsdale, RI, 1897
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
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Wraps. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. 2 Color Plates, B&W Illus. (illustrator). 4th Edition. Phillipsdale, RI: ***** Self Published *****. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (1897). 4th Edition. Wraps. Pictures of US warships including the USS Maine and a picture of her officers and one of the crew. Each photograph's captions include its statistics including dimensions, displacement, armor thickness, armnament, crew makeup, speed, contract price. . 8vo., 65 pp., yellowing, some tears .
