If you Goggle "Mastering The Art Of French Cooking", you can find a lot of copies, first edition, on line for under $20 US$. Both volumes, I and II. When our local library was cleaning out some of their inventory, my sister was able to pick up both volumes. They became her bedtime reading every night. If I had known how excited she could become over that set, I would have given her my first husbands set that I gave him as an anniversary gift. When he died, I put them out in the yard sale I held one day. They were both a 'first edition.' Some of her more simple recipes can cover mulitple pages.