Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Volume One)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Drawings by Sidonie Coryn. Fourteenth Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($10.00), generally toned and soiled, wrapped in an old mylar taped onto the boards. Patterned cloth on the boards, slightly pushed at the head and foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain, some stains from the adhesive on the endappers, remarkably clean otherwise. This book jumpstarted Child's career and is responsible for her receiving her television show The French Chef.