The Boss Dog de Fisher, MFK - 1991

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked, NF/NF. Full cloth binding. 118pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

North Point Pr, Apr-91. Hardcover.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 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

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. Head and heel of spine cloth edges have tiny crease lines by corners. D/j slightly edgeworn. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. 118 pages.. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine d/j. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

North Point Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 5x0x8. Infused with her trademark grace and sly wit, Fisher's The Boss Dog chronicles an American mother's year abroad with her two daughters in Aix-en-Provence. Part memoir, part fiction, this extraordinary adventure is presided over by an aloof and proprietary mongrel, the Boss Dog, who leads them through the town and reveals to them all its riches. Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 - June 22, 1992) was an American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. 1st edition . Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 118p.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 6 x 8 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers like near new, binding tight. Front endpapers spotted, text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; clean, spine sunned. Fic. Stax.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991.