BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 80 “Bon Appetit!” 115CHILD, Julia, BECK, Simone, and BERTHOLLE, Louisette. Mastering the Art of French Cooking. WITH: Mastering the Art of French Cooking Volume Two. New York, 1961, 1970. Two volumes. Large octavo, original patterned white cloth, dust jackets. $7800 First editions of both volumes of Julia Child’s indispensable cookbook, volume two boldly inscribed by the legendary chef with her signature phrase: “Bon Appétit! / Julia Child.” Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking remains arguably the most influential work on French food ever published in the United States and Child herself was undoubtedly French cuisine’s most enthusiastic and successful ambassador. Child was the girl from Pasadena who revolutionized American cooking with her irrepressible humor, genial expertise, and her signature phrase, “Bon Appétit!” Books in fine condition; first dust jacket extremely good, second dust jacket very good with edges chipped, each jacket with minor toning and short closed edge tears. An unusually nice signed set. “Correct Recipes… Flavored With Dashes Of History Mixed In A Shaker Of Anecdote And Served With A Chaser Of Illuminative Information” 116CROCKETT, Albert Stevens. The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book. New York, 1934. Octavo, original gray and orange cloth. $5500 First edition of Crockett’s post-Prohibition drink manual, review copy with a paper Dodd, Mead & Company “press copy” label dated April 5, 1934 on the back cover and a sample of the silver dust jacket mounted on the front pastedown. Following the end of “the Period of the Great Drought,” Crockett revisited and rewrote Old Waldorf Bar Days, his 1931 history of the legendary hotel bar with accompanying collection of drink recipes. Contents clean; light rubbing and spots of soiling to cloth, spine slightly sunned. A very good copy of the scarce first edition.
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