Coffee: The Essential Guide to the Essential Bean

143 pp. Tightly bound. Tips of top corners with light, minor ding. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. Jacket not price clipped. First Edition / First Printing. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.