Pomiane, Edouard de

Le Carnet d'Anna.

[Paris: Editions Paul Martial pour les Laboratoires Zizine, 1938].

Small octavo (15 x 12 cm.), Illustrated by André Giroux. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes by a cook named Anna, collected by Édouard de Pomiane (1875-1964), the great French founder of "gastrotechnie", and professor at the Institute Scientifique d'Hygiène Alimentaire. Publisher's limp black cloth; white title label pasted to front panel. A bit of general light soiling to cloth wrappers, otherwise very good. Scarce. [OCLC locates five copies, just two in the U.S. (Schlesinger Library, Univ. Southern Miss.)].

Price: $350.00