This is the first edition of The Martha's Vineyard Cookbook, originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1971 and reprinted in paperback by Globe Pequot Press in 1983.

It is the only edition issued in a convention 9 x 6" format (subsequent editions were 8 x 8"), the only one to use line art rather than photography for interior illustrations, and the only one to use the subtitle "A Diverse Sampler from a Bountiful Island."

Decisions about whether or not to combine it with subsequent editions should be made accordingly.

ISBNs for the first edition (1971 HC): 9780060123987 and 0060123982

ISBNs for the first edition (1983 PB reprint): 9780871069153 and 0871069156