Ambrose b editor (4 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. stapled paperback, very slightly faded else a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, 22pp.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. stapled paperback, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, 22pp.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. A very smart fourth impression of this translation of Madam Prunier's fish book from English journalist and food writer Ambrose Heath. Fourth impression, first published 1938. A translation of Madame Prunier's Fish Cookery book, providing advice on buying fish, elementary rules for cooking fish, how to prepare fish, and complimentary butters and sauces. Includes recipes arranged by fish: fresh-water, salt-water and shellfish, as well as turtle recipes, frog recipes, and snail recipes. Simone Prunier, known as Madam Prunier, was a French restaurateur and food writer who established a well-known French restaurant in London. La Maison Prunier, a Paris restaurant founded by her grandfather Alfred Prunier which was later passed down to her father and then herself, became famous for the fresh fish and shellfish that was delivered daily by train from the sea, a novelty at the time. Madame Prunier later went on to open the Prunier St James's restaurant in London. Selected, translated and edited, with an introduction and notes by Ambrose Heath, an English journalist and food writer. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor bumping to the extremities and a small mark to the front board. Light fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book. …

Zustand: Very good. 1954, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp334, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, tan cloth spine over beige boards in dustwrapper.