"THE MOST IMPORTANT CULINARY FIGURE THIS COUNTRY HAS PRODUCED": FIRST EDITION OF JULIA CHILD & COMPANY, SIGNED BY BOTH JULIA CHILD AND PAUL CHILD, ACCOMPANIED BY A FIRST EDITION OF JULIA CHILD & MORE COMPANY, IN ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS

CHILD, Julia. Julia Child & Company. WITH: Julia Child and More Company. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978, 1979. Two volumes. Quarto, original patterned white paper boards, original dust jackets.

First edition of Julia Child's wonderful cookbook accompanying her second television series of the same name, signed on the half title by both Julia Child and Paul Child., together with a first edition of Julia Child & More Company, both in bright original dust jackets.

"Long before the rise of Alice Waters, Jeremiah Tower and Wolfgang Puck and without the magic of editing, Julia Child was re-outfitting the American kitchen and re-educating the American palate. In the process she became the most important culinary figure this country has produced, as well as one of the century's most admirable women… Her influence cannot be overstated" (Salon). Her award-winning WGBH series "The French Chef became the longest-running program in the history of public television; it was followed by Julia Child & Company" and this accompanying book (New York Times). Throughout her extraordinary career, "Child had fun. Given to imagery ('the dough should feel like a baby's bottom') and colorful language ('use the electric mixer and go whole hog'), she preached the advantages of a modern, well-stocked kitchen" and a lively passion for fine food (Salon). Julia Child's first public television series The French Chef "changed forever the way Americans cook… That learning to cook could lead an American woman to success of any kind would have seemed utterly implausible in 1949; that it is so thoroughly plausible 60 years later owes everything to Julia Child's legacy" (New York Times). This lovely signed copy is accompanied by a first edition of Julia Child & More Company. Like Julia Child & Company, it is also a menu cookbook and features Child's lively commentary throughout. Wonderfully illustrated with many color photogravures. With "First Edition" on copyright pages. Issued in various bindings, no priority established.

Books fine; colorful about-fine dust jackets with faintest toning to Julie Child & Company, trace of edge wear to Julia Child and More Company. A lovely set.