This is a very nice hardback recipe cookbook titled "The Art of Making Sauses & Gravies" by Frederica L. Beinert. It is copyright in 1966 by Frederica L. Beinert. It has a dust cover that has some smaller rips mostly at the edges, but is nearly fully intact. The hardback cover is in very good, to like new condition, red in color with green highlight and gold lettering on the spine. The pages are very clean and white, good tight binding and spine. This book's focus is on making sauces, marinades, specialty sauces, dessert sauses, gravies, and quick gravies and sauses. There is 260 pages, plus an complete index, makes it easy to use.