Cooking in Old Creole Days; La Cuisine Creole a L'Usage Des Petits Menages
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. Stated Second Edition, First Limited Ed. Octavo. 24.5cm. Limited to 500 copies. Publisher's blue cloth spine with paper title label over printed grey paper covered boards. 118pp.;[1]. Straight and strong, a little soiling to the title label and the paler parts of the boards, some light bumping to spine ends and corners; internally clean and fresh, fore-edge untrimmed, photographic frontis. with tissue guard, illustrated throughout, with some spotting to the tissue guards and some light offsetting. A very good, attractive copy.
Originally published in 1903, and quite rare in its eariest form, this Derrydale Press edition was produced in a small run with a new introduction by Harry Worcester Smith.
Price: $300.00