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The Modern Library, Published 1995. Hardcover, xxiii, 182 pp.; 20 cm; 1995 Modern Library Edition; with an introduction by James Salter.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Gray cloth-covered boards with Modern Library torchbearer logo blind-stamped on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Mild shelf wear to covers with light bumping to corners and mild fading to cover edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket shows light bumping to edges and mild surface wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.A. J. Liebling's classic memoir of his apprenticeship in the art of eating and drinking in Paris, begun in 1926 when he arrived at twenty-two to study at the Sorbonne. The longtime New Yorker writer recounts his gastronomic education under the great around-the-clock gourmand Yves Mirande and evokes the legendary Paris of the 1920s. Jacket portrait of Liebling is by Therese Mitchell.Contents: Introduction (by James Salter); A Good Appetite; Its Corollary; Paris the First; Just Enough Money; La Nautique; The Modest Threshold; The Afterglow; Passable.