Wear on the edges. Shipped the next business day! We own a small family book store and sell our extra books and media that have been on our shelfs for too long. We sell them for a quarter of the price at our store so we can move our inventory! Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: There are many excellent cook books offering recipes of Louisiana cookery. This particular one is different, however, for here the authors have not concentrated on the old stand-bys and thus echo'd many other good cooks. Instead, the recipes present the daily fare of those folks who live in the Louisiana Bayou Country - recipes that are basic "Cajun" cooking, many of which were the foundation for the famous ones used in New Orleans restaurants.