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La Bonne Table
Author:
BEMELMANS, LUDWIG & FRIEDE, DONALD and ELEANOR (Selected & Ed)
Title:
La Bonne Table
Publisher:
Hamish Hamilton 1964
Description:
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue & black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained black, illus eps & prelims, 446pp, illus, VG+ (light discolouration to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, 2cm closed tear to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping with archival tape repairs to edges, light creasing with chafing & soiling)
Keywords:
first editions culinary literature Ludwig Bemelmans food critics criticism appreciation anecdotes