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Coffee: A Dark History by Antony Wild

Cover image: first-party in-hand capture, 2026-07-24 (TODO-75 intake).

By Antony Wild · year TBD (verify in-hand)

Bibliographic detail

  • Author: Antony Wild
  • Publisher: TBD — verify in-hand
  • Year: TBD — verify in-hand
  • Format: Dust-jacketed hardcover; pagination/ISBN TBD — verify in-hand

Physical description

Dust-jacketed hardcover; the jacket sets a two-hemisphere period world map against a claret ground with an embossed crest motif. Protective-wrapper tape marks visible at the edges. Condition and physical details TBD — to be recorded on the bibliographic sweep.

Provenance

Long-held shelf copy; acquisition source, date, and price are unrecorded. Registered to the research library from the 2026-07-24 shelf-photography session. Accession: HH-BOOK-2026-0032.

Why it matters

Wild covers the coffee trade’s colonial economy with an edge the celebratory trade literature lacks — a critical counterweight between Ukers’s encyclopedic 1935 view and Pendergrast’s modern survey when framing the green-coffee sourcing world H and H bought in.

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