American Cookery

by James Beard, Earl Thollander, Illustrations

$1,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. First edition first printing. Signed by James Beard and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. xii , 877 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth stamped in brown and ocher with gilt titles on spine blocked in ochre. Very Good with concave spine, tape ghosts to board edges, light staining and shelf rubbing to text block edges. Former owner name at front free

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