"GOOD FOOD, GOOD EATING IS ALL ABOUT RISK": VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, BOLDLY SIGNED BY ANTHONY BOURDAIN

BOURDAIN, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. (New York): Bloomsbury, (2000). Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. $7500.

First American edition, especially scarce first printing, of Bourdain's breakthrough first book, boldly inscribed in black felt pen by him, "For S— Anthony Bourdain."

Bourdain, who died in 2018, is remembered as a man who "built his career on the telling of truth… one of the country's best food writers," his bestselling memoir "pulls back the curtain on restaurant life to reveal a drug-hazed, vanity-seasoned, deceitful theater of the absurd, in which professional cooking amounts to a series of compromises and near-calamities that miraculously yield something edible" (New York Times). First edition, first printing. Also published the same year in London.

Book fine, dust jacket with trace of dampstaining to verso and lightest edgewear to bright near-fine dust jacket.