TITLE.................... ....:
CONSIDER THE OYSTER
AUTHOR................. ..: M. F.
K. FISHER
ILLUSTRATOR..........:
PUBLISHER...............:DULL,
SLOAN AND PEARCE. NEW YORK
DATE & EDITION.......:1941.
1st
COVER SIZE (mm)....: 140 x
220
CONDITION...............:
DUST JACKET...........: fair -
clipped, heavy wear, chipping & creasing to
extremities,
COVERS.....................:
original publisher´s grey cloth covered boards with white
decoration, age soiling with wear to edges, corners
bumped
SPINE.........................:
with title, wear to extremities, sunned
END & FLY PAPERS.: intact but
with heavy tone / browning
PAGES.......................: 117
pp including index of recipes, generally bright &
clean
BINDING....................:
tight
PLATES & MAPS.......:
none
INSCRIPTIONS..........: owners
name on front fly
SYNOPSIS, BLURB...: True 1st
edition with dust jacket Absolutely essential title for the library
of the serious foodie / gastronome. One of M.F.K. Fisher´s earliest
culinary classics: "Here is the story of the oyster´s dreadful but
exciting existence, its disconcerting sex life, and, far most
important of all, its various and delicious ways of dying" With
recipes. Humourous and almost irreverent approach debunks the
pomposity of haute cuisine. R900,
Shipping by parcels / small
packets............EUR
Republic of South
Africa............................3.00
Rest of World by air
...............................18.00
by surface
............................................. 9.00