Gingerbread House, Signed (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Poet signature to title page, else fine. BP/Poetry/Signed Books. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. 2011. First Edition. 141 pages. Signed by the author. Beige pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Front endpaper has been signed by the Author and dedicated. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal rub wear and creasing. Unclipped jacket is clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal rub wear and creasing.

8vo. pp 16. Dark orange cover illustrated and lettered in black and white. One of 25 signed and numbered copies, signed at the title page, numbered '22' at the colophon. ISBN: 0906427282 Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. PHOTOS (illustrator). 1st Edition. STRONG FIGURAL INSCRIPTION BY MR. MESINER ON TITLE PAGE DATED 2018 BOOK IS AS NEW AND APPEARS UNREAD STATED FIRST EDITION A BEAUTIFULLY PHOTOGRAPHED LOOK AT THE WHITE HOUSE PASTRY KITCHEN BY THE HEAD CHEF THE STORY OF THE TRADITIONAL WHITE HOUSE GINGER BREAD HOUSE AND ITS CONSTRUCTION MANY OTHER GREAT HOLIDAY RECIPES FROM THE WHITE HOUSE KITCHEN GREAT RECIPES WITH HOW TO MAKE PHOTOS A DIAGRAM / INSTRUCTION BOOKLET LAID IN AT THE BACK IN PERFECT RED POCKET A GRAND COOKBOOK JACKET IS BRIGHT AND COMPLETE. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. Paperback 1982. 21.5x14cm. 16 pages. Flat covers. Flat spine. Clean & tight book. Signed by the author. No other inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref c40. Scenes from the Gingerbread House ------ SIGNED by Carol Rumens. Published by Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle, UK. -------------- POETRY. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Octavo. pp [16]. Glossy wrappers. Nine poems.Number 20 of 25 copies signed by the author.Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large format hardcover book full of beautiful photographs of Chef Roland Mesnier's masterful creations. Inscribed boldly on front fly leaf to previous owner with message and sketch. First edition stated, appears to be second printing as indicated by number line. There is a faint crease to front panel of jacket and corresponding ding to front board, but remains a lovely copy. Promotional postcard laid in. Uncommon title signed. #topF. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 143, [1] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To Susi Roland Mesnier Oct. 29, 2011. Author's promotional card (5 inches by 7 inches, full color illustration on the front) laid in. Forward by Gary Walters. The contents include Foreword, Introduction, State Occasions, Special Events, Family Celebrations, Gingerbread Houses, Glossary of Pastry Terms, and Index. In this memoir, Roland Mesnier, pastry chef to five presidents, recalls the stunning desserts he created for White House State Dinners, formal events, and family celebrations. Roland Mesnier (July 8, 1944 - August 26, 2022) was a French-born American pastry chef and culinary writer. His creations during his twenty-five years as Executive Pastry Chef (1980-2004) at the White House earned him the reputation of a creative genius. He first became interested in becoming a chef when he visited his brother's pastry shop. When he was fourteen, his mother secured an apprenticeship for him at a pastry shop in Besançon. At 17 he passed his apprenticeship exam and began to look for work that would enhance both his skills and his reputation. Mesnier lived in Hamburg and Hanover and learned marzipan modeling along with how to make cakes, cookies, and fondants, as well as the German and English languages. Mesnier was hired as White House pastry chef in 1979 by First Lady Rosalynn Carter. "My role in the White House," Mr. Mesnier once told a reporter, was "to put a smile on the face of the first family." Gary Walters, Formerly the White House Chief Usher, was responsible for the effective operation of the Executive Residence at the White House as the home of the President, site of Official and Ceremonial activities of the Presidency, and a museum of our American history. He developed and administered the budget for the operation, maintenance, and utilities and supervised the Executive Residence staff. Mr. Walters has served as Chief Usher since being appointed by President Reagan in 1986. He served as Assistant Usher from 1976-1986 after initially being appointed by President Ford. Mr. Walters was member of the Executive Protective Service (Uniformed Division), United States Secret Service from 1970-1975. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland and served from 1970-1975 in the United States Army.Mesnier performed his role for twenty-seven years, between 1977 and 2004, under the presidencies of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and both Bushes, and the book gives a modern and close-up look at this ancient and curiously unchanged practice of articulating power through sugar. Mesnier's more detailed account of the work makes us aware that patisserie is a dangerous branch of cookery, as well as one requiring an extraordinary range of skills, among them carpentry, glass-blowing, painting and sculpting, as well as a capacity for technological invention. Mesnier devised many of his own tools, for example making use, with delicious irony, of a dental tool to sculpt sugar orchid petals. The pastry chef must work with the sharpest knives to cut the brittle, potentially lacerating, hardened sugar and must have the daring to manage sugar in its molten form. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

First edition, first impression, signed by the author on front free endpaper; 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, faded at extremities and head of spine, dust-jacket, some chipping at top edge with slight loss to top & tail of spine, otherwise very good. An uncommon title in the jacket by this prolific author, particularly signed. An 'eccentric family' story, revolving around a Russo-Irish family.