Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
Title: Consider the Oyster
Description: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First Edition. First Edition. Fisher, M.F.K. CONSIDER THE OYSTER. Inscribed. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pierce, 1941. First Edition. 8vo. 117pp. A near fine copy in the publishers grey boards stamped white on the spine and front, showing light use in a good unclipped dustwrapper of this slender treatise on the life, lore & culinary delights of Oysters. Fisher's second husband, Dillwyn [Timmy] Parrish, was the nephew of the illustrator Maxwell Parrish. Clifton Fadiman, the American intellectual, author, radio & television personality remarked: "Since Lewis Carroll no one had written charmingly about that indecisively sexed bivalve until Mrs. Fisher came along with her Consider the Oyster. Surely this will stand for some time as the most judicious treatment in English. Near fine/Good.
Keywords: M. F. K. Fisher
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Title: Consider the Oyster
Description: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First Edition. First Edition. Fisher, M.F.K. CONSIDER THE OYSTER. Inscribed. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pierce, 1941. First Edition. 8vo. 117pp. A near fine copy in the publishers grey boards stamped white on the spine and front, showing light use in a good unclipped dustwrapper of this slender treatise on the life, lore & culinary delights of Oysters. Fisher's second husband, Dillwyn [Timmy] Parrish, was the nephew of the illustrator Maxwell Parrish. Clifton Fadiman, the American intellectual, author, radio & television personality remarked: "Since Lewis Carroll no one had written charmingly about that indecisively sexed bivalve until Mrs. Fisher came along with her Consider the Oyster. Surely this will stand for some time as the most judicious treatment in English. Near fine/Good.
Keywords: M. F. K. Fisher
Price: US$ 320.00 Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library
- Book number: 34063
- Book number: 34063
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