er, meant to say, I have the first and can vouch for it. Sry, brain not working today.
I totally understand book-love. I just got in a position where I had way too many books...definitely over a thousand, maybe almost two thousand. The whole house was bookshelves, including the hallways, and I actually had a couple of cave-ins. I can't lift the books myself, so it became a pain in the ass for those around me and it wasn't fair. So I had to severely cull my collection. I'd say I have fewer than 500 now. Larousse Gastronomique was one of those that I evaluated for size vs use vs potential, and it had to go
I kept my Ruhlman books, a Bourdain book (because it was entertaining) and several regional cookbooks that I use a lot.