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Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Beautifully signed by Julia Child at title page: "Julia Child." Very attractive. Stated "First Edition" at copyright page; 1989 at title page and copyright. Very substantial oversize volume with 9 1/2" x 11 1/4" design and weighing near six lbs. Semi-gloss, white patterned boards, light shelf wear generally; bump, small tear to back board corner. Heavy stock, coated pages, near fine. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Bright and elegant dust wrapper, moderate edge wear, rub, toning; clipped, protected in new clear sleeve. Rare near very good directly signed first edition in same wrapper. Julia takes you into her kitchen and tells you - and shows you - everything she knows about the essentials of good cooking. A one-of-a-kind, brilliant cookbook. She blends classic technique with free-style American cooking, emphasizing lightness, freshness and simpler preparations. More than eight hundred recipes and profusely illustrated with six hundred color photographs. Printed in the United States of America. 511 pages with a Note on the Author and the Type. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Beautifully signed by Julia Child on signature cuts adhered at front endpaper: "Bon Appetit. Julia Child." Very attractive. According to original owner the clippings placed in this volume were signed at an appearance of Julia Child for the New England Culinary Institute, and, The American Institute of Wine and Food. The luncheon event with Mrs. Child was held on September 12, 1990, in Governor's Mansion at The Inn at Essex in Vermont. Stated "First Edition" at copyright page; 1989 at title page and copyright. Very substantial oversize volume with 9 1/2" x 11 1/4" design and weighing near six lbs. Semi-gloss, white patterned boards, light shelf wear, bump. Heavy stock, coated pages, near fine. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Bright and elegant dust wrapper, light shelf wear; unclipped 50.00, protected in new clear sleeve. Rare near fine first edition in same wrapper. Julia takes you into her kitchen and tells you - and shows you - everything she knows about the essentials of good cooking. A one-of-a-kind, brilliant cookbook. She blends classic technique with free-style American cooking, emphasizing lightness, freshness and simpler preparations. More than eight hundred recipes and profusely illustrated with six hundred color photographs. Printed in the United States of America. 511 pages with a Note on the Author and the Type. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
CHILD, Julia. The Way to Cook. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Photographs by Brian Leatart and Jim Scherer. Quarto. Light foxing on the first few pages else near fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Beautifully signed by Julia Child at half-title page: "Bon Appetit! Julia Child." Very attractive. Includes original 6" x 8" b&w semi-gloss photograph from book promotion of Julia signing "The Way to Cook" with back of photo dated Sept. 12, 1990. According to the original owner, the photo is from an appearance of Julia Child at a luncheon held on this date in 1990 in "Governor's Mansion," The Inn at Essex, Vermont. Stated "First Edition" at copyright page; 1989 at title page and copyright. Very substantial oversize volume with 9 1/2" x 11 1/4" design weighing nearly six lbs. Semi-gloss, white patterned boards, light shelf wear, bump. Heavy stock, coated pages, near fine. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Bright and elegant dust wrapper, light shelf wear; unclipped 50.00, protected in new clear sleeve. Rare near fine signed first edition in same wrapper with original photo from event. Julia takes you into her kitchen and tells you - and shows you - everything she knows about the essentials of good cooking. A one-of-a-kind, brilliant cookbook. She blends classic technique with free-style American cooking, emphasizing lightness, freshness and simpler preparations. More than eight hundred recipes and profusely illustrated with six hundred color photographs. Printed in the United States of America. 511 pages with a Note on the Author and the Type. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.