Serve It Forth by Fisher (84 results)

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. pp. xviii, 749. 8vo. Light shelfwear, creasing and discolouration to extremities, age-toning to pages, ink owner's name to first page; good. M.F.K. Fisher's five most famous books in one volume.

Trade Paper. Condition: Very Good Condition. 146pp. Content clean and sound. No faults.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo. 1st Edition. Edgewear to cloth binding with scraping and chipping to spine ends and foredges. Scrapes and abrasions to foredges. Fading and rubbing to cloth binding. Slight soiling to cloth binding. Stain to front cover. Darkening and rubbing to spine.Tear along rear joint. Abrasion to rear cover. Loosening and creasing to spine. Overopening to hinges. Glue burns to hinges. Slight overopening throughout. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. No jacket. Spine worn, frayed at head, and with a pair of nickel-sized waterstains along joint with lower cover. Covers dust-soiled and faded around edges. Internally clean and tight.

Softcover. 147 pp Delightful and amusing reminiscences and little essays, some historical, always culinary. fine, new.

Soft cover. Reprint. 50th Anniversary Edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 749 pps.

Soft cover. First edition thus. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. As new. 749 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging across boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 3.05.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. First printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor wear and stain on the boards. Hinge is a bit loose. Text is clear of markings and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 3.05.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition THUS, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Corner clipped from front flap. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 3.05.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Author's first book. Solid, clean copy - no names, inscriptions or bookplates. Stated second edition. Green cloth, black-stamped titles. Lacking dustjacket. Slight wear to cloth at spine head.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. An animated journey through culinary history beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Later. Ix, 253 pp. Octavo. Black cloth with white title. Copyright 1937 but this is the later "War Edition" so printed after Dec 1941. Black cloth covers are worn at extremities, spine tips rubbed, some pale "splash" marks on front cover and spine. Title a bit faded, front board a little forward. Interior clean and unmarked, bit toned. A good copy of this lovely book. Fisher describes feasts from many tables and many times, some her own. In typical fashion, she describes a French man who has captured and is cleaning his own snails, leaving them to starve in an aquarium until they are ready to eat: "For a day or two more they stayed, bottoms up, on the glass. Then they began to drop off. Nights were punctuated by the thumps of snails fainting in their little Black Hole. We lost sleep, feeling very sick for them.The last scene I caught through the dining room door: Plume and Doudouce bent gravely over a lighted table, pouring the hot sauce into each up-ended snail shell. Their hands trembled very slightly and Plume's tongue stuck out." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Stated first edition. The spine is a bit toned, otherwise superior.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING. tan cloth-covered boards, black spine and front board lettering, gilt spine decoration, 8 1/4 X 5 3/4 inches, 253 pp., 11 b/w illustrations. Very good (modest sunning, spine; gift inscription in neat script, dated '39, top of front free endpaper; 3 newspaper clippings about Fisher laid in, with some offsetting to endpapers; otherwise, pages clean and binding square and sound). The author's first book. No dustjacket. (K016).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. 1st Edition. With blank bookplate, some discoloration to the right front corner, mild dampstaining on the first free endpaper, otherwise about fine. An attractive copy of the author's first book with vivid silver gilt lettering.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Second Printing, or as Harper stated at this period "Second Edition Published June 1937" on copyright page. Near Fine in dark green cloth, lacking the dustwrapper. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 253pp. Fisher's first published work. Illustrated. Q11897.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Xviii, 749 Pp. Green Cloth. Stated First Edition, But Actually The First Was Published In 1954 By World, And This Edition Adds The Beard Appreciation, 1979. Lightly Used, No Marks. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket, Price Clipped At Top Of Front Flap.

Peach Cloth, Gilt. Condition: Near Fine Book. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair Dust Jacket. First Edition, Second Printing. 253 Pp. First Book On Food By M F K Fisher, The Second Printing, August 1937 (The First Printing Was In June). Book Is Bright And Clean, All Gilt Brilliant, Just A Trace Of Wear At Corners, No Fraying, No Names Or Marks. Dj Worn At Edges, Price-Clipped At Top Of Front Flap, Large Chip/Loss In Bottom Half Of Spine, Removing Bottom Of "Forth" And First Three Letters Of Publisher's Name, Some Closed Tears And 1/4" Losses At Corners But Otherwise Complete, Just A Trace Of Fading To Pink Areas At Top And Bottom Of Spine, No Damp Spotting, No Soiling. It Is Said Of Fisher That If She Had Written About Anything Other Than Food, She Would Have Been One Of The Greatest Writers Of Her Time.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine or better first edition first printing hardcover, no writing or marks. Peachy-tan boards, black and gold lettering. Peach end-papers. All illustrations present. Lacking the dustwrapper. Fisher's first book. 253 pages. M03772.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st D-M edition. HB Good. Bookplate inside front endpaper. 3 1/2" newspaper clipping pasted inside corner of front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Copy First Edition Stated Author's First Book w/o Dust Jacket Beautiful Fresh Copy.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. First Edition. Octavo. 253 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Orange cloth stamped in black and gilt. Pink endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped with original $2.50 price present. Heavily chipped and creased along edges with general rubbing, but intact. Neat one inch tape repair to verso of rear flap. Boards show some light staining and sunning along spine and edges. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. One plate loose but present. Overall a very good copy in a good near-complete jacket of Fisher's first book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Tight and square copy. Attractive in jacket. Author's first book. Black and gold stamping to front board and spine over light orange boards which have narrow line of offsetting to far edge of top board with two bumped corners. Light wear at spine ends. Orange endpapers. First edition stated on copyright page (published June 1937). No markings. Facsimilie jacket is bright and fresh and protected in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not A Cookery Book, But A Book For Everyone Who Enjoys Eating FISHER, M.F.K. [253] pp. Hamish Hamilton, Publisher 8 1/4" x 5 7/8" 1937 In Serve It Forth, her first book, M. F. K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans. Fisher recalls a hunt for snails and truffles with one of the last adepts in that art and recounts how Catherine de Medici, lonely for home cooking, touched off a culinary revolution by bringing Italian chefs to France. Each essay makes clear the absolute firmness of Fisher's taste--contrarian and unique--and her skill at stirring memory and imagination into a potent brew.

First edition, first printing. The first book by pre-eminent American food writer M. F. K. Fisher. Rather than a book of recipes it is a literary appreciation of food history and culture. Fisher was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine black, gilt design to spine, peach endpapers. With dust jacket. Fading to cloth at spine and along edges, offsetting to pastedowns, in the dust jacket with sunning to spine, chipping to ends of spine, splitting along flap folds, shallow chips to corners. A good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition of Fisher's first book. A very good plus book (slight lean) in a jacket that has had some professional restoration to the edges and corners. This price-clipped jacket presents as near fine or better with a touch of fading to the spine. Rare in any condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First edition. 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 and witty and experienced and young. The truth is that it is stamped on every page with a highly individualized personality And it really is a book about food 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 The first adjective for Serve It Forth must certainly be "different" (New York Times). "In a properly run culture, M.F.K. Fisher would be recognized as one of the great writers this country has produced in this century" (Raymond Sokolov). With eight full-page illustrations. Octavo, original pale orange cloth, original dust jacket, unclipped (priced $2.50). Book with only minor toning to spine; rare dust jacket with a bit of wear to spine ends. First printing. book.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Lacking dust jacket. Cover shows minor wear and fading. Pages are tanned and clean.