How to Eat (and Drink) Your Way Through a French (and Italian) Menu Thriller

How to Eat (and Drink) Your Way Through a French (and Italian) Menu ThrillerNew York: Atheneum, 1971 First edition. First printing. Signed by the author on the first free endpaper. The boards a bit warped. A couple of blemishes to the outer text block edges but the contents fine. Faint wear to the dust jacket. A near fine copy in like jacket. A lasting guide that was pioneering in its time, when American food culture was limited and European menus were rarely translated into English. American interest in cuisine originates

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

The faintest blemish to the top edge of the outer text block

Michael Kandel

Bea Mahaffey was an editor and legendary figure in early science fiction fandom

published only five days after the British edition

signed by him in black felt tip

Seal Beach: ’76 Press

First British edition

but  a near fine copy overall

Some foxing to the the pastedowns and endpapers

with no additional publications mentioned on the copyright page

and faint traces of damp staining to the verso and the flaps