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The Smoker's Text Book 1866
The Smoker's Text Book 1866
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Author: Hamer, J.
Title: The Smoker's Text Book
Place Published: London
Publisher:John Camden Hotten
Date Published: 1866
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[6], 107, [1] pp. 70x60 mm, original green cloth, stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. First Hotten Edition, second edition overall.



Bondy p.141 "The first edition is extremely rare and even the three later editions are not easy to find. One of the most endearing features of this finely produced volume is the engraved title preceding the printed title, showing Nargileh water pipes, tobacco plants and, in the centre scales weighted on one side by a crown and on the other counterbalancing it a smoking pipe. The volume is dedicated 'to all true smokers of every land and clime'" ; Spielmann 183; Welsh 3214.

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Wear and soiling to cloth, hinges repaired; good.
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