Verlag: Pantheon, 1992
ISBN 10: 0679738606 ISBN 13: 9780679738602
Anbieter: Gulf Coast Books, Memphis, TN, USA
paperback. Zustand: Good.
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Verlag: North Point Pr, 1991
ISBN 10: 0865474656 ISBN 13: 9780865474659
Anbieter: Dream Books Co., Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: good. Minimal signs of wear. Corners and cover may show wear. May contain highlighting and or writing. May be missing dust jacket. May not include supplemental materials. May be a former library book.
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Verlag: Thorndike Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 1560541962 ISBN 13: 9781560541967
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
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Verlag: North Point Press, San Francisco, 1991
Anbieter: Charles Lewis Best Booksellers, San Diego, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: VG Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. , indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones and colour plates, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Publisher's Weekly noted: "First published as a limited edition by the Yolla Bolly Press, this brief and charming novel by essayist/epicure Fisher tells with childlike esprit of an American family's residence in Aix-en-Provence. The mother and her saucily precocious children, Anne and Mary, get to know the town with the staunch help of Boss--``the doggiest dog anyone ever saw''--a stray with an incurable craving for pistachio nougat. The Boss Dog has an enviable knowledge of Aix's low and high life, and guides the three travelers through crowds and toward restaurants. He is ``a large fellow with a fat rear, mostly the kind of terrier called yippy, part Fox and part Boston and part Mystery, a rather rat-nosed, narrow-eyed, undistinguished dog esthetically.'' Fisher's inimitable observations of place, taste and character give readers vicarious encounters with the fountains, cafes, festivals and food of Aix, while she lyrically--and nervily--captures the lives of Americans abroad. The droll accident of being outsiders, and its fatigues, have rarely been so delicately evident in fiction.".
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. A fine copy in brown cloth boards with bright gilt spine lettering in a fine, pictorial dustwrapper featuring a painting by Vlaminck. Fisher and her two daughters, living at the time in Aix-en-Provence fall in love with a feisty, endearing French dog. A charming tale by one of America's great food and travel writers, the doyenne of French literary writing.
Verlag: North Point Press, San Francisco, 1991
ISBN 10: 0865474656 ISBN 13: 9780865474659
Anbieter: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition thus. First trade edition. A fine, frsh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 118 pp. An American mother spends a year in France with her daughters, aged eight and eleven. They soon fall in love with a regural visitor to their favorite cafe---a rather odd-looking fellow "with a fat rear, mostly the kind of terrier called yippy, part Fox, Part Boston and part mystery.". His air of superiority leads the children to call him "Boss Dog".
Hardcover. 1st edition.
Verlag: North Point Press, San Francisco, 1991
ISBN 10: 0865474656 ISBN 13: 9780865474659
Anbieter: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. David Bullen (Jacket design); Maurice de Vlaminck (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Light shelf wear to jacket, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.
Verlag: Pantheon, New York and North Point Press., 1992
Anbieter: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Two uncorrected proofs in cream and yellow colored wraps.
Verlag: North Point Press, San Francisco, 1991
Anbieter: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Maurice de Vlaminck dj art (illustrator). First Edition. The story of an American mother and her children at a cafe in France where a terrier plays a poignant role, by the famed culinary writer and novelist. Has all the first edion points. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.
Verlag: North Point Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0865476306 ISBN 13: 9780865476301
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3.
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. 1st edition, Limited. First edition, soft cover, marked V/250 on the colophon, book has a very shallow bow to the text block, slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, mild sunning to the spine, a touch of edge wear to the covers, and a previous seller's faintly erased penciled price to the upper corner of the second front end page, otherwise a solid, tight, clean Very Good+ copy in a like dust jacket, which has very light bumps to the spine ends and corners, a hint of sunning to the spine, a small area of peeling to the back cover near the tail of the hinge, and some minor rubbing with a hint of edge wear to the covers. Lacks slipcase.
Verlag: The Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, CA, 1990
Anbieter: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 104 pages, 4to. Includes slipcase. Limited Edition of 255 numbered copies. This is copy 87. Minor shelfwear, heavy spine fade. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine-minus condition.
Verlag: Covelo: Yolla Bolly Press (1990)., 1990
Anbieter: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, USA
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First edition. 104 pp. Fine in printed wrappers and fine publisher's slipcase. One of 190 numbered copies. Fisher contributes an afterword to this story, the third in the "Storytellers Series" the press.
Verlag: Yolla Bolly Press, (Covelo, CA), 1990
Anbieter: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Thick color printed DW over card, slipcase, 4to., (vi), 104, (1) pages. One of 190 numbered copies (225). Story Tellers Three in the series. A fine copy in a fine DW.
Verlag: The Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, California, 1990
Anbieter: G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, USA
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
Softcover. Zustand: As New. Limited Edition. No. 5 of 190 copies bound in sewn paper wrappers. 104 pp.; sm 4to (10" x 7 1/2"). In thin paper board slipcase. Number three in The Storytellers Series. The story of Anne and Mary and their mother, who wandered from California to Aix-en-Provence, and met (or were chosen by) the haughty, cocky, Boss Dog - from the other end of town. The doggiest dog anyone ever saw.
Verlag: The Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, CA, 1990
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: Near fine. First edition. 104pp. Quarto [25.5 cm] in decorative wraps with matching endpapers, with handmade paper jacket, in publisher's thin board slipcase. Light edgewear and a few small stains to slipcase. Copy number 71 of 190 numbered copies bound in sewn paper wrappers, from a total edition of 255 copies. One of the great prose stylists of the 20th century, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher wrote almost exclusively about food, and so never achieved mainstream literary recognition. Food, however, is never just food, and Fisher's delectable and penetrating work speaks directly to the human experience. Boss Dog appears at first to be a departure for Fisher; it is not explicitly concerned with gastronomy, and its cannily fanciful toneâ"reminiscent of E. Nesbitâ"is appealing to children, although this is not precisely a "children's book." Once begun, though, Boss Dog reveals itself to be Fisher through and through, from the careful descriptions of carefully chosen meals to the sense of universal import that hangs about the quotidian. Although presented as fiction, Boss Dog, like nearly all of Fisher's work, is largely autobiographical. She and her two young daughters spent a year or so in Aix-en-Provence in the 1950s, and these six stories tell of their time there, enlivened by the exploits of the "very interesting dog" of the title. Unlike Fisher's only novel (the surprisingly ineffectual Not Now but Now), which suffered from her attempt to refocus her powers on a subject other than gastronomy, Boss Dog is a fully realized and wholly satisfying tale, with much to offer both Fisher's fans and those new to her work. It is also one of the last books Fisher wrote before her death in 1992, with much of her later published work consisting of journal entries and anthologies of older writings.
Verlag: North Point Press, San Francisco, 1991
Anbieter: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Kanada
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
Erstausgabe Signiert
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.
Verlag: Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, 1990
Anbieter: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Kanada
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Large 8vo. Cloth covered boards with geometric patterns in paper covered board slipcase. 1 of 60 copies in boards, this one numbered XXIV. Signed by the Author, noted for her books on culinary subjects, this one a memoir of a dog. Fine copy.
Verlag: Yolla Bolly Press, [Covelo, California], 1990
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
1 vols. Small 4to. First edition, deluxe issue. One of sixty copies numbered in Roman (of 65), specially bound and signed by the author, from a total edition of 255 copies. 1 vols. Small 4to. Published as the third of the Press' "Storytellers" series. Silk over boards, stamped in blind. Decorated endsheets. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in slipcase First edition, deluxe issue. One of sixty copies numbered in Roman (of 65), specially bound and signed by the author, from a total edition of 255 copies.