Portrait Of a Chef

Cambridge At The University Press, 1938. Hardback. First edition, 1938. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Good minus condition; edgeworn with some marks, tape marks, bumps to corners and spine, faint foxing to fore edges, pages clean and tightly bound, ex-library with usual stamps and markings in Good minus price-clipped dust jacket; edgeworn with some marks, chips and… Read more about this item

London: Cambridge at the University Press, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, blue cloth boards with text on spine. Exterior shows fading and bumping/wear along edges and spine along with spotting and light soiling. Interior pages or tone due to age and end pages show… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938. Octavo, 221 pages. Illustrated. First edition. Biography of arguably the first celebrity chef, Alexis Soyer. Includes appendix with menu facsimiles. In blue publisher's boards with title stamped to spine, some slight bumping and discoloration. End pages with some discoloration from adhesive; light fading to pale blue cloth, otherwise very good. Lacking dust jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938. Octavo, 221 pages. Illustrated. First edition. Biography of arguably the first celebrity chef, Alexis Soyer. Includes appendix with menu facsimiles. In blue publisher's boards with title stamped to spine, some slight bumping and discoloration. Some foxing to edges of text block and to a few pages, otherwise very good. Lacking dust jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938. First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Cloth in dust jacket, book nearly fine but for an inch-wide band of tan offsetting toward the inner hinge of the front flyleaf, jacket very good minus with light edgewear and chipping, mainly to rear panel. 221 pp, illustrated. Soyer (1810-1858) was a French chef, writer and… Read more about this item

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. New Softcover. Morris, Helen Soutar. The Portrait of a Chef: the life of Alexis Soyer, one time chef of the Reform Club . (Cambridge Library Collection) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK 2013. 8vo (215x140mm) SC [4],xi,[3],221,[7]pp. POD

Chicago,, 1975. Reprint Of The 1938 Edition. Paperback.. Clean, very good.. 8vo. pp xi, 221. Original publisher's yellow wraps, lettered white and black on front cover. Signed presentation from the author on the half title page to the writer, Angus Wilson, 'Angus, with love Helen'. Illustrated throughout. ISBN: 0226540006

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.