Ambrose B Editor (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good- Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st printing, with 'first published' statement on CP. Very good hardcover with very good- dust jacket, from a private home collection. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards also very good. Previous owner's name stamp on front endpaper, otherwise text very good. DJ has a one-inch closed tear, otherwise shelfwear is very minor. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Lacking the Jacket. Third Edition. (UK) Third edition, 1967. No markings, very faint spot to the top edge of pages, Very Good used copy; lacking the dust jacket. Green cloth with gold spine titles, xxii, , 298pp, index. Full page B&W photos mostly of prepared dishes; B&W menu andfacsimile of lnote from Escoffier; B&W drawings of fish and seafood. These recipes were the work of Madame Prunier's father, Emile who died before he could publish a book based on his 25 years of research. The material was given to a collabortor, M. Michel Bouzy who published the book in France in 1929 (LES POISSONS, CRUSTACES ET COQUILLAGES, on which this present book is founded. There are 1000 recipes for all kinds of fish dishes which has made the restaurant name of PRUNIER famous in London and in Paris. The cooking sections starts of with a chapter on savoury butters and sauces, "the most important chapter in the book", and proceeds in an orderly quintessentially French manner to Soups, Fresh-water, and then Salt-water Fish, Shellfish, Turtles, Frogs, Snails, Some Prunier Specialties, and wine notes. The translation was done by Heath who as usual does a good job. (1.8 JM HOQ 101/a5 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". MEHEUT, Mathurin (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: 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. …

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