The pages show normal wear and tear. There is a signature or handwriting on the inside front cover. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing Pages are clean! There is a lot of wear and tear on the cover Some corner dings. There are stains or residue on the cover Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
Stated First Edition at copyright page. Textured, semi-gloss pictorial boards, moderate shelf wear, discoloration. Unique tinted cover image of oventop with pots, pans, utensils and food, and classic blue spine design, white titles on red fields. Pages very good; toning to endpapers, small sticker-pull inside cover. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Attractive original edition. Near very good first edition ready to be used for amazing culinary delights. One of the first, most important, and most successful, cookbooks by America's beloved Julia Child. Using a very accessible approach to French cooking from an American point of view, presented here are recipes and techniques for the beginner as well as the more advanced cook, using easily available ingredients for everything from soups and appetizers to dessert. Black and white drawings and photographs throughout. 687 pages plus thorough twenty-six page index and Note About the Author. Insured post.
Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate shelf wear to boards due to age and use. Discolored spot on both boards. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Book Club hardcover in a jacket. Slight pale foxing to upper page edges. Square and unmarked. 687pp, index. Illustrations by Paul Child. Jacket is good only, rubbed, with long tear at spine head, now in a new mylar cover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
1999, red cloth. Binding is unblemished, text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Mild rubbing to dust wrapper edges. Very clean, nearly like new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
687p; xxvi. A hardcover book in very good condition with dustjacket. Edges lightly rubbed and small stain on top corner of foredge. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket has several small closed tears along the edges, one of which is held with clear tape. Otherwise largely intact.
Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light curling to bottom corner of rear cover. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
The jacket is worn and smudged with the top and bottom edges of the jackets spine being bumped. The cover is creased on the outer edge of the front cover with the spine being lightly foxed, but not affecting legibility. The top and bottom edges of the spine are bumped. Spine is shaken, but binding is secure. Pages are clean and unmarked.
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