Mastering the Art of French Cooking

by Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle, Julia Child

$6,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed in French by both Julia Child and Simone Beck on the first blank. Bound in publisher's decorated cloth. Illustrated throughout by Sidonie Coryn. Lacking the dust jacket. Good, with soiling to cloth, fading and light creasing to spine, light but pernicious stains to textblock edges. Binding lightly shaken, corners bumped, contents lightly

• Printing: first

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