cookbooks signed

Hardcover. London, JR Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Signed personal letter from author enclosed. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has small repaired rip on spine, otherwise very good. Gilt title on spine. There a small bit of staining (food) to a couple of the pages. Binding tight and in excellent shape.

Hardcover. NY, Gourmet , 1st, 1958, Hardcover, cream colored buckram with Italian crest to front and spine; gilt title to spine. 593 pages with b&w photographs and illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY CHAMBERLAIN on the front fly leaf. Recipes translated from the Italian and adapted by Narcissa Chamberlain. Samuel V. Chamberlain (1895-1975) was an author, illustrator, photographer and artist who occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Phineas Beck. His works include books on historical architecture, interiors, fashion illustration, and cookbooks. White cloth covers soiled, Interior clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. A Cape Cod cook book. Light foxing to fore edge copy. Very small tear to dust jacket lower spine. Faint yellowing to rear dust jacket top edge. Decorative staining to top edge copy block. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 590 pages. SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR MOLLY STEVENS ON HALF TITLE-PAGE. Light wear to edges of dust jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Gutersloh GR, C. Bertelsmann,, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 438 pages, chipped dust jacket. GERMAN TEXT. JULIA CHILD'S COPY with her signature, address and 1956 on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JULIA CHILD on HALF TITLE PAGE. Otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover edges. Color photographs throughout.