Fabulous! And heavy! This is a HUGE book. Packed with recipes, history, wonderful pictures and instructions. Sooo much fabulous detail for making wonderful and fine French cuisine! This book is new. Unread. Clean pages. Tight binding. We homeschooled and I bought it to use with our high school geography. Sadly, we never got around to using it. There's one tiny indent on the front cover. See pictures for overall condition.