M F K Fisher, First Edition, Signed (52 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 243 pages. First paperback edition, first printing. A collection of short stories & essays dealing with aging & the mysteries of existence. Inscribed by Fisher on the first sheet in 1988 to herbalist & aromatherapist Jeanne Rose. An envelope and card (1988) to Rose from Fisher laid in. Fine book in wrappers. A beautiful copy! Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover book. INSCRIBED on title page to Ross Hunter (producer of movies in 50's/60s/70s such as AIRPORT, PILLOW TALK, MIDNIGHT LACE, etc.) and JACQUES MAPES (co-producer). Lower corners bumped, else fine in price-clipped dust jacket. "To Jacques Mapes and Ross Hunter / all good wishes / Ray Reddell". Inscribed by Author(s).

softcover. Condition: near fine. First edition. Pictorial softcover. 299pp. Inscribed and signed twice by M.F.K.Fisher on front free endpaper.

Paperback. 1st. INSCRIBED "All best ---/MFKFisher/1987." First edition thus. 8vo. 256pp. Original softcover in color printed dust jacket. A fine copy. Ms. Fisher's only novel traces the subtleties and nuances of a woman's mind.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green cloth with decorative past down and gilt to spine. Original dust jacket, unclipped with ACW $3.95 price intact, mylar protected. First Edition thus. Signed by author to free standing endpaper. 12mo, 7" x 4 1/4." Jacket sunned to spine, slightly soiled; extremities worn with repaired tear to front. Inside clean and tight. A very good, signed, copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: very good/very good. First edition. Octavo. 22cm x 15cm. 243pp. Price of $12.95 on dust jacket flap. Signed and inscribed by the author twice on front free endpaper and dated 1983. Some edge wear to dust jacket with some creasing and toning.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 243 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Fred Marcellino. A collection of short stories & essays dealing with aging & the mysteries of existence. Inscribed by Fisher on the first sheet in 1983 to Rosamund Bernier & John Russell. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy! Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 212 pages. First edition, first printing. Price clipped. Fisher collects 35 prefaces, 15 of her own & 20 from books of other writers. Published on her 80th birthday. She covers a wide range of subjects. Inscribed by Fisher on the second sheet to Bay-area food writer, Jane Horn. As new book in an as new dust jacket. A beautiful copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. In these fifteen stories, M.F.K. Fisher, one of the most admired writers of our time, embraces the coming of old age. The stories describe human strength in the unavoidable encounter with the end of life that Fisher dramatizes so powerfully. Other themes?the importance of witnessing death, the marvelous resilience of the old, the passing of vanity?are all explored with insight, sympathy and, often, a sly wit. Signed M.F.K. Fisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by M.F.K. Fisher on a prefatory blank leaf. In her lifelong appreciation of France, Fisher (1902-92) was always determinedly anti-Parisian, preferring less traveled routes and destinations, as is the case with this celebration of the Mediterranean port city of Marseilles. This entirely new work occupies a significant place in the later Fisher cannon as it was completed during a time when Fisher had begun to doubt that she had much left to say as a writer. Octavo: [xiv], 208, [2] pp. with endpaper maps. Original blue paper-covered boards over a natural cloth spine, with gilt-stamped titles and decorations. Light fading along the extremities of the boards; else near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 261 pages. First edition, first printing. Twenty culinary memoirs from her lifetime, some of which are published here for the first time. All of which are laced with newly written reflections and asides. Dust jacket drwawings by Judith Clancy. Signed by Fisher on the first sheet. Fine book with faint foxing to the top edge in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy! Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 208 pages. First edition, first printing. She celebrates Marseille in its glory & wickedness, past & present, its life, its legends & its mystery. Inscribed by Fisher on the second sheet in Glen Ellen, 1978. Laid in is a post card from Fisher to the same recuperate. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy! Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. With illustrations by Sylvaine Sauvage (illustrator). 1st Edition. Smaller quarto of 10-1/2 inches, in original orange cardboard slipcase. (NO dust jacket, as issued.) Inscribed "For Margaret Sparling / 'Maggie Dear' / from her admiring and grateful friend / MFK Fisher / Whittier 15/VI/52" in black ink to the otherwise blank FFE. A Margaret May Sparling (1909-1980) married Kenneth Edward Kingman in Los Angeles in 1929, though as she would presumably have been "Margaret Kingman" in 1952, we can't be sure this is the addressee. 471 pp. including Translator's Postscript. Reduced from $1,150. Inscribed by Author(s).

Peach Cloth, Gilt. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ. First Edition, First Printing. 253 Pp. First Book On Food By M F K Fisher. Book Is Bright And Clean, All Gilt Brilliant, Rubbing At Top And Bottom Of Spine, No Fraying, No Names Or Marks, Signed On The Half-Title By Fisher In Her Very Early, Small Hand. Rear Hinge Was Cracked, Now Professionally Repaired. Dj Complete, Not Price-Clipped [$2.50], No Chipping But Minute Losses At Corners, 1/2" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Spine Edge, 1/4" Closed Tear Top Rear Panel, 1/8" Closed Tear At Center Of Rear Flap Fold, Spine Sunned With Slight Tanning Of White Areas And Pink Background At Top And Bottom Of Spine Is Somewhat Faded, Some Slight Oval Pressure Indentations At Center Of Spine, No Damp Spotting, Slight Dustiness/Soiling To White Areas. It Is Said Of Fisher That If She Had Written About Anything Other Than Food, She Would Have Been One Of The Greatest Writers Of Her Time. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. (Fisher, M. F. K.). Thompson, Sylvia. FEASTS AND FRIENDS: Recipes From A Lifetime. Inscribed. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. First Edition of her fourth cookbook Inscribed by acclaimed food writer Sylvia Thompson on the front free endpaper. "To Susan - I hope this book continues to give you pleasure! Warmest best, Sylvia Thompson". 8vo. 287 pp. A fine copy in wine cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a beautiful pictorial dustwrapper. Superb recipes from M. F. K. Fisher's goddaughter. With a Foreward by M. F. K. Fisher.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Ferrary, Jeannette. BETWEEN FRIENDS. M. F. K. Fisher And Me. Inscribed. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, (1991). First Edition Inscribed by noted food writer and cookbook author Jeannette Ferrary on the front free endpaper. "To Dave and Dottie/with warmest regards to a photogenic couple/ Jeannette Ferrary". 8vo. 237 pp. A fine copy in 1/4 yellow cloth over sea green paper covered boards, red titles to the spine in a fine illustrated dustwrapper. A wonderful memoir by the author recalling her friendship with M. F. K. Fisher.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. Fisher, M. F. K. A CORDIALL WATER. A Garland Of Odd & Old Receipts To Assuage The Ills Of Man & Beast. Small 8vo. 142 pp. A near fine copy in the publisher's mustard and green cloth boards in the unclipped yellow dust jacket in near fine condition. M. F. K. Fisher's engaging collection of age-old folk remedies, "a perfect combination of superstition, instinct, and primitive knowledge", with autobiographical anecdotes from the author's life in California, Provence, Mexico and Switzerland. Considered by M. F. K. Fisher to be her best book.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fine Condition. First Edition. One of 250 of a slipcased edition in blue cloth with a laid down leaf signed by Clancy and M.F.K. Fisher. Fine in a slipcase lightly worn at the corners. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Cooking, Wine & Dining. Signed by Author and Illustrator. Inventory No: 041876.

Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, 2nd Impression. 1st Edition, 2nd Impression. Signed by Author. Fisher, M. F. K. AMONG FRIENDS. Inscribed. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983. First Edition, Soft cover with jacket, second impression Inscribed by M. F. K. Fisher in her later hand on the front free endpaper. "Jaye, from Mary Frances/ MFKF/ Glen Ellen, 1983". 8vo. 306 pp. A near fine copy, (dedicatee's small unobtrusive bookplate to the front free endpaper), in the publisher's fine white wrappers in illustrated dustwrapper. MFK Fisher's remembrances of people and places of her girlhood and growing up as a minority in the Quaker town of Whittier, California.

Hardcover. Condition: fine. 1st. Introduction by M. F. K. Fisher. One of 225 numbered copies of a special slipcased edition limited to 250 copies and signed by Clancy and Fisher. Book and slipcase are in fine condition.

First edition. 4to. 21 pp. Fine in paste-paper covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine unprinted tissue dust jacket with a tear to one flap fold and light overall edgewear. Printed at the Grenfell Press. One of 250 copies on all-rag Fabriano paper SIGNED by Fisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Cover design by Milton Glaser. Small quarto. xv, 334pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with faint toning, just a bit of edgewear, and a small scratch on the front cover. A nice copy. Laid is a holiday card from Thompson to Harry Ford, the book's designer: "I want you to know how deeply grateful I am for all your good work on *Economy Gastronomy*. .".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Quarto. Original quarter cloth and paste-paper covered boards with printed paper spine label. Fine in fine original unprinted glassine dust jacket, which was not put on all copies in the edition according to Targ (to whom we spoke to directly). One of 250 copies Signed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. SIGNED Limited Edition. One of 250 copies handbound at the Grenfel Press. Fine in cloth-backed paste- paper over boards, with the original plain tissue protective wrapper. (Lightly discernible dime-size clear stain on front cover of tissue wrapper).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Fisher, M. F. K. SPIRITS OF THE VALLEY. New York: Targ Editions, 1985. First Edition Limited to 250 copies Signed by M. F. K. Fisher. Small 4to. 21 pp. A fine copy in 1/4 beige cloth over patterned green paper covered boards, red titles to the spine in the publisher's unprinted glassine dustwrapper. Fine dark navy blue slipcase. An engaging autobiographical memoir by America's premiere culinary author.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. Original white cloth and boards, octavo (6 x 8.5 inches), 261pp. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "For Alex and Bob from Mary Frances - always with good best wishes! Glen Ellen, 1983, MFK Fisher." Fine, quite clean and unworn in near fine pictorial dustjacket with minor soiling to rear jacket panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 178 pages. First edition, first printing. A garland of odd & old receipts to assuage the ills of man or beast. Collects a charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, fortifiers. Inscribed by Fisher on the first sheet in 1961. Price clipped. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with the spine slightly faded. A beautiful copy! Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Fisher, M. F. K. THE BOSS DOG. Inscribed. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. First Trade Edition, Inscribed by M. F. K. Fisher in her later hand on the front free endpaper. "To Jaye - best, MF/ MFKF/ Glen Ellen, 1991". 8vo. 118 pp. A fine copy, (dedicatee's small unobtrusive bookplate to the front free endpaper), in brown cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a fine illustrated dustwrapper. An enchanting semi-autobiographical short story set in Aix-en-Provence.

Cloth & Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Gilt lettered quarter cream cloth over blue paper boards. This copy inscribed by the author" For__________________ from MFK Fisher and For __________ from their loving friend Mary Frances Glen Ellen 1978" A tear in the front free endpaper O/w a near fine copy of Fisher's celebration of the city of Marseilles. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Broadsheet. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Broadsheet. Signed by Author. First Edition, Limited to 100 Numbered Copies Signed by M. F. K. Fisher. 15 in. x 22 in. A fine copy designed and printed from handset type on Rives BFK, Gutenberg Laid and Mohawk Superfine by Judyl Mudfoot at Mudborn Press. Calligraphy by Pamela Gardella. An excerpt from M. F. K. Fisher's engaging, A Cordiall Water: A Garland Of Odd And Old Receipts To Assuage The Ills Of Man And Beast, collecting age-old folk remedies, "a perfect combination of superstition, instinct, and primitive knowledge", with autobiographical anecdotes from the author's life in California, Provence, Mexico and Switzerland. From the broadside: "The first advice is from the Journal kept by a London apothecary, in Shakespeare's time. The second is from a handbill thrust at me in Aix-en-Provence in about 1970, by a tall man dressed in rough thick clothes. It was night. Down the side street from which he darted now and then with his bunch of flimsy broad-sides I could hear the quavering of a dismal hymn. It sounded strange in the dark, sung perhaps by five or six ancient women, and its Weyleyan measures were doubly foreign in that Catholic town where Campra had been born and where schoolboys whistled phrases from the Jerusalem Psalter as unconsciously as they did from the latest rock-and-roll. But the handbill was no more strange to me than the other old recipe for both spoke of incantation, and mystery, and age-less faith: the essentials of healing". Frame not included.