Feb 28, 2006 - Sale 2068

Sale 2068 - Lot 193

Price Realized: $ 8,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ONE OF THE RAREST AMERICAN COOKBOOKS (FOOD and DRINK.) Fisher, Abby C. What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern Cooking, Soups, Pickles, Preserves, etc. 8vo, original gilt lettered blue cloth, very slightly rubbed; paste downs with some bubbling from binder's glue. San Francisco, 1881

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first edition of the first cookbook authored by an african-american.