Gastronomy 2021 Catalogue

21 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s G a s t r o n o m y 2 0 2 1 “The First Thing I Cooked Was Pure Poison” 23. FISHER, M.F.K. The Gastronomical Me. New York, 1943. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $950. Click for more info First edition of these gastronomical memoirs. “Fisher’s writing is cool passion and vintage quality... Innumerable critics, writers, and readers have recognized the brilliant prose and literary pearls slyly content to be clothed in the seeming ordinariness of cookery, just as the oyster shell covers the dual and different delicacies of flesh and gem” (ANB). First-issue dust jacket , with the author in a romantic reclining pose; the jacket was withdrawn almost immediately after publication and replaced by one featuring a more conservative image. Book with slightest foxing to endpapers and most minor wear to cloth, fragile wartime dust jacket with only slight soiling and light wear. A near-fine copy. Inscribed By M.F.K. Fisher 24. FISHER, M.F.K. Serve It Forth. New York and London, 1937. Octavo, original orange cloth, dust jacket. $4900. Click for more info First edition of M.F.K. Fisher’s first book on cooking, inscribed: “This is the first book I ever wrote, 1937. For Albert Marquand and Andy ——-. M.F.K. Fisher Glen Ellen 1990.” The publication of Serve It Forth announced the delightful debut of M.F.K. Fisher, “one of the finest of all food writers” (Barile, 127). Serve It Forth earned immediate high praise as “a delightful book… erudite andwitty and experienced and young… The young author goes back to the simple and democratic food of the Egyptians and their simple lives; she dwells a bit on the Greeks… She explains how good cooking, like learning, was kept alive in the monasteries in the Dark Ages. She has surprising notes from Elizabethan England and Catherine de’ Medici’s France” ( New York Times ). With eight full-page illustrations. Book with onlyminor toning to spine; rare dust jacket with a bit of wear to spine ends, foxing to rear panel. Quite rare inscribed.