First edition stated; gray cloth boards decorated with blue titles and red lips, 8vo, 416 pages, small black and white illustrations by Roger Duvoisin, who designed the dust jacket as well. Top edge of text block is dust soiled, previous owner's bookplate and brief inked notations in front endpapers, toned dust jacket is rubbed and edge worn with a couple of spots of mild soiling, price of $4.00 intact in front flap, now in protective mylar cover. From the owner of New York's once famed El Borracho supper club comes this sophisticated, impertinent and witty combination of worldly-wise autobiography and connoisseurs' recipes.
Title: Love and Dishes
Edition: 1st Edition
Illustrator: Roger Duvoisin
Location Published: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill: 1950
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Type: Hardcover
Categories: Cooking
Seller ID: 001553
Keywords: food writing memoir el borracho new york supper club vintage cookbook roger duviosin