Item #H4120 Le Musée des Erreurs, ou le francais tel qu'on l'ecrit - inscribed by both authors. Curnonsky et J.-W. Bienstock, Maurice Edmond Sailland.
Le Musée des Erreurs, ou le francais tel qu'on l'ecrit - inscribed by both authors
Le Musée des Erreurs, ou le francais tel qu'on l'ecrit - inscribed by both authors

Le Musée des Erreurs, ou le francais tel qu'on l'ecrit - inscribed by both authors

Paris: Albin Michel, (1925). First printing. Paperback. First edition (1925), wraps, inscribed by both to theatrical director and actor Edmond Roze (d. 1943 Auschwitz), good copy in original yellow printed wraps, wraps moderately edgeworn, text tanned. Curnonsky was one of the greatest writers and most celebrated writers on French cuisine, restaurants, and a pioneer writer on Chinese cuisine -- he published widely on cooking and restaurant culture and from the birth of the Michelin guide to such venues he participated in their ratings from the start; probably gay, he was one of Colette Willy's husband's 'friends' and had a number of male roommates who were also sometime collaborators in publishing projects. Bienstock was a naturalized Russian who was also widely celebrated -- as a translator of Russian classics, including the complete works of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. This is a compilation divided into subjects, of French writing they found not only in journals and in contemporary publications, but back into the 19th century, that they considered to be examples of bad writing. Good. Item #H4120

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