SIGNED - Clementine in the Kitchen by Phineas Beck, 1943, First Edition, Samuel Chamberlin, Vintage 1940s WWII Memoir French retailer Cookbook

Clementine in the Kitchen (**including letter signed by the author**)
By: Phineas Beck (Samuel Chamberlin)
Illustrated by: Samuel Chamberlin and Henry Stalhut
Published by: Hastings House
1943 (First Edition)

Used hardcover with no dust jacket
8.25" x 5.5"
228 pages

Condition: GOOD - Unfortunately, the dust jacket is missing and the blue linen cover does show some surface/edge wear, with significant fading to the spine. Inside, the binding is tight and the pages are clean, with the exception of some darkening and light foxing on the top edge of the pages. There is a letter from the author glued onto the front end paper and a previous owner's book plate glued opposite the title page.

This World War II memoir/cookbook tells the story of an American family and their French cook. The family evacuates France in the late 1930s, bringing their beloved cook with them and Clementine is forced to adapt her French recipes to the ingredients found near their new home in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a old-fashioned New England seaside town. The story, first published in Gourmet magazine, is accompanied by recipes and illustrated with line drawings and Samuel Chamberlin's architectural drawings. Glued retailer onto the front end paper is a personal letter sent from Samuel Chamberlain to the previous owner of the book.

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