Not Now but Now

New York: THE VIKING PRESS, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards, blind stamped on cover and in gilt on spine; top edge red. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper. 256 pages. 21 x 14 cm. The second (and last) novel from the first lady of food writing (the first was written under the pseudonym Victoria Berne and co-written with her husband at the time Dillwyn Parrish). Dedicated to her third husband, Donald Friede, this novel followed the five foundational gastronomic titles: Hear Let Us Feast, The Gastronomical Me, How to Cook a Wolf, Consider the Oyster, and Serve it Forth. The main character Jennie finds herself in a destructive affair with a father and son while she makes her way to London and San Francisco. Interior and boards crisp and clean. Dust wrapper price clipped and lightly rubbed at the edges. Covered in protective mylar.