Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
Title: How to Cook a Wolf Inscribed by Fisher
Description: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1951. First Edition- Revised. Hardcover. First Edition- Revised. Hardcover. Fisher, M. F. K. HOW TO COOK A WOLF. Inscribed First Rare Revised Edition (1951) 8vo.282 pp. In the original black cloth boards with decorations of the wolf's head surrounded by vegetables stamped green at the bottom cover and with titles stamped green at the spine. This copy in near fine condition with some aging and minor marking on the cloth. Housed in a Very Good+ bright mustard dust jacket with the original price of $3.00 intact. Chip to the crown of the spine and left front. A handsome copy of the author's scarce third and revised book. Inscribed to "Francis Spain – My best –MFK Fisher 12.8.51" on the title page. Fisher added reflective marginal notes but also included new recipes to suit the postwar reality. While the original 1942 edition focused heavily on making do with scarcity (ration cards, substitutions, and minimal meat), the 1951 version acknowledges the gradual return of abundance and modifies the culinary advice accordingly. She didn’t rewrite the entire book, but rather commented on her earlier ideas—sometimes with irony, sometimes with approval. These margin notes offer insight into how her thinking (and the context) had changed in the near-decade since the original. Introduction to the Revised Edition by M.F.K. Fisher (1951) "Certain it is, however, that in less than ten years this book—about living as decently as possible with the ration cards and blackouts and like miseries of World War II—has assumed some of the characteristics of quaintness. It has become, in short, in so short a time, a kind of period piece. Of course, it is difficult, in spite of the obvious changes in our physical problems since How to Cook a Wolf was first published in 1942, to say truthfully and exactly when we are at war. Now we are free of ration cards.. No more blue and red tokens, no more flimsy stamps to tear out—or not tear out—for meats, too precious to buy. We can buy as much porterhouse and bourbon and powdered sugar as our purses will allow—given the rise of almost one hundred percent in the cost of such gastronomical amenities. We need not worry, temporarily at least, about blackouts and bare cupboards.. while at the same time we try not to think, even superficially, about what and when and how and where to nourish survivors of the next kind of bomb. Thus stated, the case for Peace is feeble." An extremely good copy, rarely encountered. Near Fine/Very Good+.
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Title: How to Cook a Wolf Inscribed by Fisher
Description: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1951. First Edition- Revised. Hardcover. First Edition- Revised. Hardcover. Fisher, M. F. K. HOW TO COOK A WOLF. Inscribed First Rare Revised Edition (1951) 8vo.282 pp. In the original black cloth boards with decorations of the wolf's head surrounded by vegetables stamped green at the bottom cover and with titles stamped green at the spine. This copy in near fine condition with some aging and minor marking on the cloth. Housed in a Very Good+ bright mustard dust jacket with the original price of $3.00 intact. Chip to the crown of the spine and left front. A handsome copy of the author's scarce third and revised book. Inscribed to "Francis Spain – My best –MFK Fisher 12.8.51" on the title page. Fisher added reflective marginal notes but also included new recipes to suit the postwar reality. While the original 1942 edition focused heavily on making do with scarcity (ration cards, substitutions, and minimal meat), the 1951 version acknowledges the gradual return of abundance and modifies the culinary advice accordingly. She didn’t rewrite the entire book, but rather commented on her earlier ideas—sometimes with irony, sometimes with approval. These margin notes offer insight into how her thinking (and the context) had changed in the near-decade since the original. Introduction to the Revised Edition by M.F.K. Fisher (1951) "Certain it is, however, that in less than ten years this book—about living as decently as possible with the ration cards and blackouts and like miseries of World War II—has assumed some of the characteristics of quaintness. It has become, in short, in so short a time, a kind of period piece. Of course, it is difficult, in spite of the obvious changes in our physical problems since How to Cook a Wolf was first published in 1942, to say truthfully and exactly when we are at war. Now we are free of ration cards.. No more blue and red tokens, no more flimsy stamps to tear out—or not tear out—for meats, too precious to buy. We can buy as much porterhouse and bourbon and powdered sugar as our purses will allow—given the rise of almost one hundred percent in the cost of such gastronomical amenities. We need not worry, temporarily at least, about blackouts and bare cupboards.. while at the same time we try not to think, even superficially, about what and when and how and where to nourish survivors of the next kind of bomb. Thus stated, the case for Peace is feeble." An extremely good copy, rarely encountered. Near Fine/Very Good+.
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Price: US$ 1550.00 Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library
- Book number: 34058
- Book number: 34058
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