H and H Coffee

Dedicated to the history of the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. est. 1899 in San Antonio, Texas.

The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History by Stewart Lee Allen

Cover image: first-party title-page capture, 2026-07-24 (TODO-75 intake) — front-cover capture pending.

By Stewart Lee Allen · Soho (per title page) · year TBD (verify in-hand)

Bibliographic detail

  • Author: Stewart Lee Allen
  • Publisher: Soho (per the title-page imprint)
  • Year: TBD — verify in-hand
  • Format: TBD — binding not captured; pagination/ISBN TBD — verify in-hand

Physical description

The registered image is the title page — the title in a circular hand-lettered device over the Soho imprint. Binding and condition to be recorded when the front cover is photographed. 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-2026-0037.

Why it matters

Allen chases coffee’s spread from Ethiopia and Yemen to the modern West — a cultural framing for how coffee’s meaning shifted across exactly the decades H and H roasted. Reads alongside Wild’s darker economic history as the collection’s two modern narrative treatments.

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