Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller
Item #46928 Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa"). J. M. Erich Weber.
Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa")
Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa")
Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa")
Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa")
Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa")
Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa")
Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa")
Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa")
Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa")
Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa")
Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa")

Praktische Konditorei-Kunst "PRA-KO-KU" : Das große Konditoren-Fachwerk der Welt (Practical Cake and Confectionary Art "Pra-Ca-Coa")

Dresden: Internationaler Fachverlag für moderne Konditorei, 1923. Sixth expanded edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 1/2 x 12"). Unpaginated: 3, 90 (1), 18 leaves, 6 patterns, 22 waxed tissues. Original Illustrated brown paper-covered boards with brown lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Decorative endpapers. Title page with publisher's vignette. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait of author.

"Pra-Ca-Coa has in this short time conquered for itself the distinction of being the foremost cake and confectionary book in the world. The best proof of this are the numerous recommendations, received from all parts of the world, which, time and again, emphasize the influence and worth of this book. This new edition has many new designs, and special effort was made to attain completeness of the treated subject." (Author). The book is illustrated with ninety full-page color plates of tortes and pastry, reproduced in color offset, and eighteen additional plates of pastry with descriptive text on opposite page, or verso of b/w photogravure plates. Includes six patterns (from 6 x 7" to a 9 3/4" square) of torte decorations and twenty-two thin waxed tissue papers (9 3/4" squares) with embossed decorative patterns.

Customized official stamp of publisher for the R. L. Devoe bakery in Chicago on printed half-title. Text in German, English and Swedish. Binding with light wear along edges, small chips and quarter inch stain along top of back cover. Front and back endpapers loose with chips and creasing, but present. 18 b/w plates loose and partially browned. Covers for thin waxed tissue papers with chips along edges, loose. Binding in overall good, color plates, wax patterns and tissues in very good+ condition. g to vg+. Item #46928

Price: $225.00

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