Kitchen Prelude (Mes Métiers).

Hamp (Pierre, pseud. for Henri Bourrillon)

Kitchen Prelude (Mes Métiers).

Translated from the French by Dorothy Bolton.

Description: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, a couple of pages with light handling marks, pp. [iv], 309, crown 8vo, original light blue cloth, backstrip lettered in dark blue and a little faded, knock to top corner of upper board, top edge green with a few tiny spots, dustjacket with an attractive design by Gladys Hynes, a little chipped at ends of browned backstrip panel, very good

Publication Details: Constable, 1932

Notes: Scarce; the English edition of the author's memoirs of his early years as an apprentice pâtissier in Paris, and as a chef at the Restaurant Marguery in Paris, at the Savoy and Bekeley Hotels in London, then at the Metropole in Brighton.An excellent insight, from a man with a clear literary sensibility, into the sometimes brutal internal workings behind such elegant facades. Hamp went on to be, among other things, a stationmaster at a French seaport and a factory inspector, all of which informed his literary realism - a contemporary reviewer called him 'the poet of jobs'....moreScarce; the English edition of the author's memoirs of his early years as an apprentice pâtissier in Paris, and as a chef at the Restaurant Marguery in Paris, at the Savoy and Bekeley Hotels in London, then at the Metropole in Brighton.An excellent insight, from a man with a clear literary sensibility, into the sometimes brutal internal workings behind such elegant facades. Hamp went on to be, among other things, a stationmaster at a French seaport and a factory inspector, all of which informed his literary realism - a contemporary reviewer called him 'the poet of jobs'. HIDE

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Subject: Sciences

Published Date: 1932

Stock Number: 73225

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