Collectible - Good First Edition Signed With Dust Jacket

INSCRIBED! Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1946. First edition. 8vo hardcover. Plain green cloth with gilt titling to spine. Green jacket with white titling and illustrations of cooking utensils, and white rear panel. Inscribed by author on front endpage. Good book, fair dust jacket. Jacket heavily edgeworn and chipped. Adhesion damage to front panel, long scratch and two holes to spine, and rear panel soiled. Foxing to flaps and interior, and dampstaining just to bottom edge of front panel. Book moderately toned at edges. Spine tips and corners lightly rubbed. Page edges lightly toned and top edge dust stained. Spine shaken. Early owner's name inked neatly on front pastedown. Endpages toned and bottom corner of pages 127-130 torn away, no loss of text. Pages remain generally neat and bright; free of food splatters or marks. (cooking, cook book, cookbook, cookery, france, french food) Inquire if you need further information.