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As They Were / M. F. K. Fisher.
LIBRA - Blank Collection AC8 .F52 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gastronomy--Anecdotes.
- Gastronomy.
- Cooking.
- Penn Provenance:
- Aresty, Esther B. (donor) (RBC copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- [10], 261, [1] pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- New York : Distributed by Random House, Inc.,
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
- Contents:
- Prejudice, Hate, and the First World War
- Palaces, Etcetera
- Young Hunger
- I Was Really Very Hungry
- Three Swiss Inns
- Pacific Village
- The Flame and the Ash Thereof
- The First Café
- Two Kitchens in Provence
- Wartwort
- A Mission Accomplished
- A Common Danger
- About Looking Alone At a Place: Arles
- At Sea. I. The Captain's Table, M.S. Feltre; II. Dutch Freighter, M.S. Diemerdyk; III. Announcement from Israel: M.S. Pluto
- The Wind-Chill Factor: A Problem of Mind and Matter
- The Changeover
- Gare de Lyon
- Nowhere but Here.
- Notes:
- This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- "Published June 11, 1982. Second Printing, July 1982."
- Front and back jacket art from drawings by Judith Clancy, 1975.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has newspaper clipping "Calculated Seduction" from The New York Times Book Review January 18, 1998 laid in at front.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has newspaper clippings, "M. F. K. Fisher, New Style of Food Writer, Dies at 83" from The New York Times June 23, 1992, "A Kitchen Olympian's Pungent Wisdom and Reminiscences" from The New York Times February 28, 1990, "On Food and Life and Herself," "Birthday Jests and Gibes From a Merry M. F. K.," and "Birthday Jests of a Merry M. F. K. Fisher" laid in at back
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- Kislak copy is "Second Printing, July 1982".
- ISBN:
- 0394524004 (cloth) :
- OCLC:
- 8172146
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