Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

New York: Doubleday, 1992. First US edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 246pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over brown boards. Title stamped in bronze ink on spine. Small pick to the cloth at foot. In a mildly rubbed dust jacket with a bit of wear to the edges. Laura Esquivel's first novel mixes family drama and unrequited love with whimsy and magical realism. A film adaptation was released in 1992, becoming the highest-grossing foreign-language film ever released in the United States at the time.