LOT 3034
22nd March 2023
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LOT 3034
HAMP, Pierre. Kitchen Prelude (Mes Métiers)… translated from the French by Dorothy Bolton. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1932. First U.K. edition, 8vo (185 x 120mm.) 2pp. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Toning, faint spotting to preliminaries, odd spots of minor staining.) Original pale blue cloth (sunned to spine), dust-jacket (spine panel browned with chipping to ends and small, closed tear, slight spotting to lower panel). Note: rare. Known for writing about the working conditions of his age, Pierre Hamp [Henri Bourrillion] here writes of his early years as a pastry chef and cook at the Savoy and Berkeley hotels in London, the Restaurant Marguery in Paris, and also the Metropole in Brighton.
Hammer price: £600
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