Signed first printing of the last book published during Bourdain's lifetime, with a striking cover by Ralph Steadman.
Near fine or better.
Price: $2,000.00
"APPETITES is the cookbook written by this man, this grown-up Anthony Bourdain." — Jem Agg
Bourdain rose to fame with KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, his flamboyant account of a thrilling, dirty underworld of cooks and restauranteurs fueled by cocaine, nicotine, alcohol, adrenaline, and raw, bloody ambition. Beneath his fondness for shocking phrases and absolute judgments, however, Bourdain's passion for food extended to passionate respect for the people and cultures that produce it. The author's stylistic flair inspired innumerable would-be chef-rock-star imitators, but his own leather-jacketed outlaw persona was balanced by persistent and humane self-awareness. At the time of its publication, APPETITES was Bourdain's first cookbook in more than a decade. As the last book to appear before his tragic death, it is also one of the more difficult to find signed.
Read more: Agg, "Review: Anthony Bourdain's Appetites," The Globe and Mail, Oct. 28, 2016.
First edition. (New York): Ecco / HarperCollins, (2016). 10'' x 8''. Original color pictorial cloth featuring pictorial paste-on by Ralph Steadman. No jacket as issued. Photographs by Bobby Fisher. Red endpapers. Publisher's "Signed Copy" sticker to front cover, as issued. Signed by Boardain on specially designed publisher's bound-in leaf. [xiv], 288, [2] pages; plus fold-out color plate illustrated by Theo Bogart. Trace rubbing to extremities. Else bright, clean, and sound.
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