Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(FOOD AND DRINK.) [Hearn, Lafcadio.] La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes from Leading Chefs and Noted Creole Housewives, who have made New Orleans Famous for its Cuisine. [2], ii, 268 pages. 8vo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, moderate wear and soiling; minor foxing; early bookseller's tag on front pastedown, early inscriptions on flyleaf and title page of Nannie Beirne von Ahlefeldt of Louisiana and Walnut Grove, WV. New York: Will H. Coleman, [1885]

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first edition. Recipes for gumbo, jambalaya, crayfish bisque, and more, compiled by a well-known journalist who lived in New Orleans for ten years. Bibliography of American Literature 7913 (state "B", priority unknown); Bitting, page 221; Cagle & Stafford 348.