6" x 9.5", 317 page hardcover titled DINING AT THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION by Carl R. McQueary/ Texas A&M University Press, ISBN # 1-58544-254-2, First Edition, May 2003/ Contains more than 225 Texas First Family recipes. "If 'All flesh is grass', and 'A man is what he eats' then those First Ladies that fed their governor-husbands on ham hock and turnip greens and pork chops and black-eyed peas!--were writing Texas history on the kitchen stove. They might have done as much in the kitchen for Texas politics as their husbands did in the capitol."

The book is complete and in FINE or better condition with some overall light wear mainly to the bottom edge of the spine which is slightly bumped. On the half-title page the author has inscribed, "For Jane- Many Thanks! Carl M. McQueary 2003".