The Adventures of Monterey Jack: Jack's Original Recipe for Rescue [Signed]

Pacific grove, California: Destiny Publishing, 2002. Inscribed by Catherine Coburn at half-title page, "December 2003, To Enzo - Say Cheese! Catherine". Scarce children's book. Dk. blue pictorial boards, slight shelf wear. Pages fine. Decorated and cheese informative endpapers. Bright technicolor illustration. Matching dj fine; unclipped 19.95. Few recipes at back w/summaries of types of cheese and some gourmet cheese recipes. Oversize design. Monterey Jack is a cheese-boy who is off to Wisconsin for a summer of fun on the farm with his cousins, Colby and Brick. The days fly by, filled with all sorts of new culinary adventures, and when it's time to return home to Monterey, there is bad news: Baby Swiss has been cheese-napped by some of Drive-Thru Freddie and Eat-and-Run Bob's Mob, those notorious rascals, oooey and Gooey Schmooey! They're demanding the best-kept secrets of Cheesedom - or else! Jack feels his destiny upon him as he resolves to save Baby, while he learns a valuable lesson about friendship.. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Machado, Ana Bondarenko (Illustration). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.