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Published by Little, Brown and Company
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1952
Seller: Spike706, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Book
hardcover. Condition: Good. 1956 printing. Some minor read/shelf wear and aging. Dust jacket is beat up.
HARDCOVER. Condition: Good+. Reprint. 272pp, octavo hardcover in light grey cloth, ex-library copy with very few faults. library call numbers bottom spine, boards clean, stamps to page edges and endpapers, call numbers in ink to title page, text clean throughout.
Published by Little Brown and Company
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Fading and discoloration to the boards. Sound binding. Mostly clean interior pages with occasional foxing and dampstaining to the pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.35.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
272 pp. Blue illustrated endpapers, with a small mark on ffp. Grey cloth with gilt titles. Corners bumped. Black DJ, not price-clipped. Small tears, wear along the edges. VG/VG-.
Published by Macgibbon & Kee, London, 1953
Seller: Tombland Bookshop, Norwich, NFLK, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. 8vo. First English edition, 223 pp, foredges browned and foxed, pages browned, good in original dark blue cloth, red label. some wear to extremities, spine a little sun faded, label a little rubbed, good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.
Published by Little, Brown & Company, 1956
Seller: Basket Case Books, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover 4th Printing March, 1956 (stated) Interior has book plate from previous owner. Otherwise interior clean; binding tight. Boards clean.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1952
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Contents clean and tight in original gray cloth binding decoratively stamped in blue and red and gilt lettering with image of a chef on front board; binding square, corners sharp. Original dustjacket (with price) dime size chip at base of spine, chipping and creasing along top edge, internally scraped along bottom edge; still attractive copy in mylar covered dustjacket. Pictorial endpapers in blue red and white displaying the menus of various Parisian restaurants. Wonderful colour frontispiece illustration depicting a chef in his toque overlayed with a pheasant and the Eiffel Tower on a dramatic black background, as well as drawings throughout by Vladimir Bobri, who also did the dustjacket design. "This is a spectacular book of cooking in the great French tradition. It is an exclusive collection of unique recipes, each a culinary masterpiece . the specialites de la maison from chefs in restaurants where . known to be consummately skilled individual artists. From L'Escargot, Chez Francoise, and Tour d'Argent . from fashionable Maxim's to some humble bistro near a great marketplace . from sixty of the best restaurants and finest chefs in the world . here are two hundred recipes that have made their creators famous." James Beard (1903-1985) was an American cookbook author, syndicated columnist, teacher, and television personality. Designated the "dean of American cookery" by the New York Times, Beard laid the foundations for generations of amateur and professional food enthusiasts. After publishing his first cookbook in 1940, Beard went on to host the NBC cooking show I Love to Eat. In 1955 he founded the James Beard Cooking School, where he taught for many years. Over the course of his career, Beard wrote countless cookbooks, including several seminal works, and he inspired and influenced chefs throughout the world.
Published by Little Brown and Company
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Book
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1952 Little, Brown Boston stated first edition hardcover in chipped and torn price intact jacket. Tight binding no marks. VG/G. Original publisher's top stain. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1952
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good plus copy in hardcover with good minus jacket. Light shelf-wear on fore-edge of page block. Jacket has two larger pieces missing from top edge of front cover, tear from bottom edge of front cover. Chipping from top edge of back cover, a few small tears along bottom edge of back cover. Creasing on front flap.
Published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1952
Seller: The Book Shed, Benson, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; jacket is edgeworn with closed tears, small chips, creases, price clipped. In brodart protector. Clean and unmarked. First printing / edition stated. Drawings by Vladimir Bobri. Beard's fifth book, scarce in first printing with dust jacket. The book was written with British journalist Alexander Watt. Beard, who was just coming to prominence, did his bit to introduce American audiences to French cuisine. Gastronomic tour of post-war Paris with recipes from each of the restaurants written about. "The long cherished, secret recipes of sixty great Parisian chefs."--from the jacket. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!.
Published by London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1953
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. First Printing in price-clipped dust wrapper, no markings, NOT ex-lib, blue & red cloth boards are slightly toned at spine ends with staining to foredge page block edge, foxing top edge, jacket toned & chipped at edges with slight loss to spine ends & corners, else clean tight nice copy of scarce early James Beard title (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; 223pp indexed; Paris map endpapers.
Published by MacGibbon & Kee, 1953
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. James Beard and Alexander Watt MacGibbon & Kee First Edition [223] pp. 1953 8.25" x 5.6".
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1952
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BEARD, James A. and WATT, Alexander[272] pp.Little, Brown and Company1952First Edition8 5/8" x 6"Jacket design by Vladimir Bobri.
Published by London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1953
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1st UK Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 223 pages; 21 cm. Subjects:Cooking, French. Restaurants France Paris. French cooking recipes. 1 Kg.
Published by London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1953
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
1st UK Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 223 pages; 21 cm. Subjects:Cooking, French. Restaurants France Paris. French cooking recipes. 1 Kg.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1952
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BEARD, James A. and WATT, Alexander Inscribed on half-title page: Bon Appetit Good luck/ James A Beard [272] pp. Little, Brown and Company 1952 First Edition 8 1/2" x 5 7/8" Drawings by Vladimir Bobri. Inscribed by Author(s).