Search Results: The Boss Dog by M F K Fisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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

Pantheon, March 1992. Paperback. Used - Very Good.

Pantheon. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

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

New York, NY: Pantheon Books. 1992. Trade paperback. Fine.. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 118 p. Audience: General/trade. . No previous owner's name CLEAN, TIGHT PAGES NO BENT CORNERS LOOKS BRAND NEW .

Pantheon, March 1992. Paperback. USED Good.

Pantheon, 1992. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Very Good copy of this first paperback printing. Some shelfwear. Tight binding. Clean pages. 118pp.

Pantheon, 1992-03-17. Paperback. Good. Good used book. Wear to DJ edges and corners. There is a two inch stain along the top edge of the front of the DJ. Some wear and fading on the cover. A few tiny spots on outer page edges.

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.

Thorndike, Maine: Thorndike Press, 1991. 143pp LARGE PRINT EDITION Front facing page has been removed Library markings on copyright page-no other libray marrkings Remainder mark on bottom Pages are clean and tight. Glossy Hardback. Very Good.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. VG Very Good/VG Very Good. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. , indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones and colour plates, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Publisher's Weekly noted: "First published as a limited edition by the Yolla Bolly Press, this brief and charming novel by essayist/epicure Fisher tells with childlike esprit of an American family's residence in Aix-en-Provence. The mother and her saucily precocious children, Anne and Mary, get to know the town with the staunch help of Boss--``the doggiest dog anyone ever saw''--a stray with an incurable craving for pistachio nougat. The Boss Dog has an enviable knowledge of Aix's low and high life, and guides the three travelers through crowds and toward restaurants. He is ``a large fellow with a fat rear, mostly the kind of terrier called yippy, part Fox and part Boston… Read More

LINCOLN, NE: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS. VG. PAPERBACK. 1969.

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

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.