first edition
1946 · New York
by Fisher, M.F.K.
New York: The Viking Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo. 491pp. An epicure's zestful visit to the festive boards of ancient and modern literature. The authors from whom she quotes range from Marco Polo to Mar Connelly, from Boccaccio to Hemingway, Thackeray, Pearl Buck and many others. This is considered a banquet of good writing fit for the literary gourmet. Bound in blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, spine gilt, wear to upper joint where the cloth is a bit split but not broken, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket with some fading along the upper edge of front panel some toning to edges of rear panel. light chipped to head.
(Inventory #: 023407)