Barbara Henley (4 results)

Condition: good. A book that has been read but is in overall good condition. Very minimal wear damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no major holes or tears. The dust jacket if applicable may not be included. Binding may have minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing. May have minimal pencil underlining and or highlighting of text and possible small amounts of writing. No missing pages. May have some light marks on the page edges or a remainder mark. May have pale yellow yellowed pages. Fast Shipping, safe and secure mailers. Stock photo used.

First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for latter upon copyright page). 380, [4] pages. Paperback: H 23cm x L 15.75cm. Blue paper covers in a white plastic comb-style binder; slight wear at covers' edges; front cover lightly rubbed but strong rubbing to rear cover. A few small stains to text block edges. Bottom fore-edge corner of pages 121-122 creased from past fold-in; a few scattered spots of minor soiling to interior leaves which overall remain quite clean. Binding is firm with plastic teeth all intact. A very good copy. This cookbook had several printings but first printing copies are uncommon. One page Introduction by Beth Henley, winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Three page essay titled A NOTE ABOUT NEW STAGE by Eudora Welty, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Literature as well as many other literary awards and honors. Features sections on beverages, appetizers, salads, soups, breads, vegetables, eggs, cheese, seafood, poultry, meats, pasta, Mexican dishes, desserts, and accompaniments as well as a buying guide and bar stocking advice for a party of fifty guests. Welty served as a board member for the New Stage Theatre for many years and a comic opera based on her novel THE PONDER HEART premiered at the Jackson, Mississippi playhouse in 1982. Welty's lighthearted essay reviews the history and personal reminiscences of the New Stage Theatre and its predecessor known as the Little Theatre. Bibliographer Noel Polk lists Welty's contribution as among her significant short non-fiction works - cited as #C74 in Polk's EUDORA WELTY; A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HER WORK. {Gastronomy-Shelf#2}.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 204 pps, wraps, 4to, presumed 1st, F/none, like new -- no folds, no markings, no soiling, no creases -- NOT EXLIB -- INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR title page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. small blank sticker on lower spine, signed by author. Signed by Author(s).