DJ scuffed w/ mild rippling at edges, but intact overall. Book itself is VG; clean, bright, & tight, no writing inside. Just light bumping at board edges. Very scarce cookbook. **The contents & first 16 pages are not in English, but the remainder of the book is--starting in the middle of a sentence, no less. I've not seen anything like this before--perhaps it's a misbinding of the foreign & english editions. In any case, the vast majority & all the recipes are in English. [1683a]