Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain: Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD signed by author (bold signature on half title page) mildly edgeworn dj. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Fine Condition. Fine Dust Jacket. First Edition. Signed By Author on Bookplate.

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First printing. Inscribed first edition of Bourdain's no-holds-barred follow-up to KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL. Ten years after the release of his bestselling first memoir KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, well-known chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain muses on his own success, the changing restaurant industry, and other famous culinary world personalities (including Alice Waters, Mario Batali, and Wolfgang Puck). A sharp copy signed by Bourdain. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter black and blue paper boards, blind-stamped front board, silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($26.99) color photographic jacket. xx, 284 pages. Inscribed by Bourdain on half title page: "To Et; Sara / Anthony Bourdain.} Trace shelfwear here and there. A few small bumps to rear panel of jacket. Else bright, clean, and sound. Signed.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. 1/2 inch open tear at top of front flap fold.; Personalized by author on half title page.; Signed by Author. Signed.

First edition of the follow-up to Bourdain's bestselling memoir Kitchen Confidential which addresses his rise to stardom and the evolving restaurant industry. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Joe Anthony Bourdain." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Allison Saltzman. Jacket photograph by Melanie Dunea/CP. "The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages. Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory" (USA Today).…

First Edition. BOURDAIN, Anthony. Medium Raw. A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook. (New York): Ecco, (2010). Octavo, original half black and blue paper boards, original dust jacket. $1200.First edition of Bourdain's highly anticipated sequel to Kitchen Confidential, boldly signed by him on the half title and dated 6/30/10Ñshortly after the release date earlier that month.Bourdain, who died in 2018, is remembered as a man who "built his career on the telling of truthÉ Bourdain effectively created the 'bad-boy chef' persona, but over time he began to see its ill effects on the restaurant industry. With Medium Raw, his 2010 follow-up to Kitchen Confidential, he tried to retell his story from a place of greater wisdom: the drugs, the sexÉ they were not a blueprint but a cautionary tale" (New Yorker). Medium Raw won early praise for Bourdain's characteristic honesty, his "pointed critiques, astute asidesÉ it's always personal, even when it gets political" (New York Times). He concludes the book with a brief memory of his life as a cook: "that single moment after a long and very busy night, sitting down at the bar with your colleaguesÉ You look at each other with the intense camaraderie of people who've suffered together and think, 'We did well tonight. We will go home proud.'" With a photograph laid in of Bourdain at the signing event.A fine signed copy. Signed. …