# Is "The Classic Italian Cook Book: The Art of Italian Cooking and the Italian Art of Eating" by Marcella Hazan a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of The Classic Italian Cook Book: The Art of Italian Cooking and the Italian Art of Eating by Marcella Hazan (Harper's Magazine Press, 1973) is identified by: The true first bears the Harper's Magazine Press imprint, dated 1973; original boards, illustrations by George Koizumi, with the copyright page carrying no later-printing notation. Precedence is critical.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- The true first bears the Harper's Magazine Press imprint, dated 1973; original boards, illustrations by George Koizumi, with the copyright page carrying no later-printing notation
- Hazan's first book
- Publisher imprint reads Harper's Magazine Press
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Marcella Hazan |
| Publisher | Harper's Magazine Press |
| Year | 1973 |
| True first | — |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | The true first bears the Harper's Magazine Press imprint, dated 1973; original boards, illustrations by George Koizumi, with the copyright… |
| Book-club edition exists? | — |

## Points of issue
The true first bears the Harper's Magazine Press imprint, dated 1973; original boards, illustrations by George Koizumi, with the copyright page carrying no later-printing notation. Hazan's first book.

## Is this the true first?
Precedence is critical. The genuine first is the 1973 Harper's Magazine Press edition. Editor Judith Jones later moved Hazan to Alfred A. Knopf, which issued the book in 1976 with a different jacket design; that Knopf printing is a later first-thus, not the true first. Dealers sometimes mislabel the Knopf as the first.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
The 1976 Knopf edition and the combined 1992 Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking (Knopf), which merges this title with More Classic Italian Cooking, are later forms. Confirm the Harper's Magazine Press imprint for the true first.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *The Classic Italian Cook Book: The Art of Italian Cooking and the Italian Art of Eating* by Marcella Hazan a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-classic-italian-cook-book-the-art-of-italian-cooking-and
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.