INSCRIBED BY JAMES BEARD
BEARD, James A. The Fireside Cook Book. A Complete Guide to Fine Cooking for Beginner and Expert Containing 1217 Recipes and Over 400 Color Pictures. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1949). Quarto, original pictorial yellow cloth, original dust jacket.
Later printing of Beard's beloved fine dining cookbook, richly illustrated in both color and black-and-white by renowned children's book illustrators Alice and Martin Provensen, inscribed: "Good Appetite, James Beard."
"The amount of information the book provides is… impressive, and Beard's straightforward, opinionated prose remains a delight to read. For all cookery collections" (Library Journal). This ninth printing was published the same year as the first edition.
Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with minor rubbing and soiling and slight toning to spine. A desirable inscribed copy.