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1988Q-0340488069HODDER & STOUGHTON 1988-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! HODDER & STOUGHTON paperback
1975400037New York: Michael Sappol 1975. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. Stapled wrappers featuring an image of Sonny Liston. A touch of age-toning very near fine. Literary magazine that includes: "Tales of San Francisco Coke!" an early excerpt from Kathy Acker's I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac!: Imagining. Other contributions from Michael Sappol Andrei Codrescu Vincent Beniquez Tina Darragh Lynne Dreyer Judith Ghinger Peter Inman Charles North and Bob Rosenthal. Michael Sappol unknown
1972580991Middlesex: Penguin Books 1972. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. Trade paperback. Tiny nick at the crown else just about fine. Briefly Inscribed by Kingsley Amis at the Table of Contents. Prints the Amis stories "Too Much Trouble" and "Dear Illusion. Penguin Books unknown
1939219276New York 1939. Large bust portrait of the actress in costume in the role of Mary mother of Jesus. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35.3 x 27.7 cm. Approximately 14 x 11 inches. Fine. Docketed on verso in pencil giving the subject of the photograph and the number of negative and print "XX 0 : 18". Large bust portrait of the actress in costume in the role of Mary mother of Jesus. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35.3 x 27.7 cm. Approximately 14 x 11 inches. unknown
1939219271New York 1939. Half length portrait of the actress in costume. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35.3 x 27.7 cm. Approximately 14 x 11 inches. Fine. Docketed on verso in pencil giving the subject of the photograph and the number of negative and print "XX 0 : 12". Small ding at right margin. Half length portrait of the actress in costume. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35.3 x 27.7 cm. Approximately 14 x 11 inches. unknown
1939222425New York 1939. Large bust portrait of the actress in costume in the role of Mary mother of Jesus. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 25. x 20 cm. Approximately 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Photographer's blind stamp lower left docketed on verso in pencil giving the print reference "XX 0 : 19". Large bust portrait of the actress in costume in the role of Mary mother of Jesus. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 25. x 20 cm. Approximately 10 x 8 inches. Inscribed by Dame Judith Anderson to Mauriber on the image. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN 1978 unknown
1934219148New York 1934. Bust portrait of the actress in profile. 1 vols. 35 x 27.7 cm. approximately 14 x 11 inches. Docketed in pencil and in ink on verso with the name of the sitter the date of the session and a reference to negative and print "I-G-34". Bust portrait of the actress in profile. 1 vols. 35 x 27.7 cm. approximately 14 x 11 inches. unknown
1951219343New York 1951. Large bust portrait of the actress in costume. 1 vols. 33.9 x 24.7 cm. Approximately 13-3/8 x 9-5/8 inches. Fine. Docketed on verso in pencil giving the subject of the photograph the date of the session and the number of negative and print "XIV ee : 4". Large bust portrait of the actress in costume. 1 vols. 33.9 x 24.7 cm. Approximately 13-3/8 x 9-5/8 inches. unknown
1980584995London: Black Ink Collective 1980. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 64pp. Very good or better with some rubbing toning and creases to the corners. Black Ink Publications produced five volumes featuring the poems short stories and plays of English teenagers of African and Caribbean descent starting in 1978. This volume is made up of poetry short stories and art by members of the Black Writer's Workshop in Brixton: Faith A. Barham Jawiattika Blacksheep Jah Rastafari Barbie Francis and Lyford. Judith Sulchi Ellis Rowland Inyang Hehshaw and Leslie Anthony Gaffe. Black Ink Collective unknown
469335Unbound. Fine. Gelatin silver photograph. Framed with the image matted to 9" x 13". Unexamined out of the frame but almost certainly fine. Portrait of the elderly Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow seated at his desk holding up a copy of Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick. Numbered as copy "1/25" and Signed beneath the image by both Bellow and the photographer Judith Aronson. unknown
1970576412Ottawa: The National Film Board of Canada 1970. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Oblong small quarto. Seventeen small booklets in a portfolio housed in a stiff card slipcase. A few booklets with just a bit of light foxing the introductory booklet lacking staples thus near fine in a toned near fine portfolio with a crease on the spine and a bit of edgewear housed in a lightly worn very good slipcase with creases along the top and bottom edges a sticker shadow on one panel missing the closing tabs on the end with old tape that had held it shut. Includes booklets by Jack Dale Michael de Courcy Christos Dikeakos Judith Eglington Gerry Gilbert Roy Kiyooka Glenn Lewis Taras Masciuch NE Thing Co. Ltd. Michael Morris Jone Pane Timothy Porter Peter Thomas Vincent Trasov and Robertson Wood. A powerful collection of work by prominent players in the flourishing multimedia art scene of Canada's west coast. The National Film Board of Canada unknown
19322866Szeged 1932. Fold out. In very good condtion. Design by George Buday Photos by Judit Karasz. Design by George Buday Photos by Judit Karasz. Fold out. 1 p. 30 x 40 cm English text and illustrations on the back. Kárász’s photographs explore the material qualities and structures of everyday things. Whether folded fabric parched soil or cotton wool the physical nature of the subject is the primary focus. Informed by her Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy she felt that photography could make tangible aspects of its subject matter that could not be detected by the eye alone. In each case the resulting image is carefully constructed from a delicate balance of light and shadow across the surface of the chosen material. Kárász studied under photographer Walter Peterhan. Tate. unknown
1999ZZ5185<p>University of Exeter Press 1999. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. No ownership marks. No ownership marks. Binding sound text unmarked. Very Good. xxix 385pp. 25 x 18 cm.</p> University of Exeter Press paperback
199132657Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum 1991. First edition. Cloth dust jacket. Fine. Additional shipping charge will be necessary. . The J. Paul Getty Museum unknown
26995-Thames and Hudson 2 Oct. 1995-. Collection catalogue. First edition. 290x240mm xxii410 pages. Illustrated in 1121 duotone 17 halftone and 31 colour plates. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. Walker Evans is widely recognized as one of the important photographers of the 20th century. From the early street-life photographs of the 1920's and his documentation of the Depression-torn South to his experiments with colour in the 1970's Evans produced a large body of work capturing something of American life. The J. Paul Getty Museum in California houses the most comprehensive collection of Evans's work and this volume brings together the whole collection. More than 1000 photographs span 50 years of Evans's career. The text places the collection in the context of the photographer's career and his development as an artist as well as in the broader context of the culture of his time. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions Auctions Collections etc. with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with over 32 years experience you may order with confidence. Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection 0500541973 -Thames and Hudson (2 Oct. 1995)- hardcover
188557264Richmond VA.: West Johnston & Co. Very Good. 1885. Paperback. 77pp. tan printed wrappers slightly chipped and stained - upper wrapper present but detached fully but half inch remains affixed to the backstrip. Author Judith Livingston Cox Garnett writing under the non de plume X.Q.C. See Wright Vol III #864. . West, Johnston, & Co. paperback
1967506040New York: Walker and Company 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 156pp. Illustrated with 95 full-page plates reproducing photographs by Lewis Hine. Light foxing on the topedge thus near fine in a very good dust jacket with an ink price on the front flap moderate rubbing and soiling and a few tiny bumps. Walker and Company hardcover
200652199New Haven & London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press 2006. First edition two volumes 4to. Numerous illustrations. Cloth d.w.'s slipcase with a bump to one edge otherwise an excellent set. New Haven & London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press unknown
198941438London: The Tate Gallery 1989. First Edition. blue cloth. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Quarto. Dust Jacket is in as new condition apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Britain/UK; 1980s; Inventory No: 41438. . The Tate Gallery hardcover
196876921Paris: N.p ca. 1968. First edition. 17 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches. Small piece from lower left corner absent. One pinhole burn reminiscent of a burning pot seed as was common at the time bit of edge crimping. A very good copy. First edition correct size: a reprint was done at a later date with smaller dimensions. The Living Theater was the brainchild of Judith Malina and Julian Beck who met in 1943 and decided that theater must move into the political sphere a place it had rarely ventured into in the United States. They staged a few plays in their apartment but the big breakthrough came in 1951 when Julian inherited 6000$ enabling their small group to rent Cherry Lane Theater on Commerce St. in the West Village. Here they staged a number of plays by writers such as Gertrude Stein Joh Ashbery and Kenneth Rexroth. By 1953 they lost the lease but by then they had attracted the attention and friendship of many luminaries of the Beat Generation such as poets John Ashbery Frank O’Hara Jackson MacLow Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso; writers Paul Goodman Tennessee Williams Joseph Campbell and Jack Kerouac; painters Larry Rivers Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning and Ray Johnson; dancers Merce Cunningham James Waring and Remy Charlip; musicians John Cage Lou Harrison David Tudor and Alan Hovhaness. Soon they had another venue and staged many political plays and garnered a lot of critical acclaim. And during this time Julian and Judith participated in many protests and were often arrested. They were part of the General Strike for Peace against the nuclear testing. Judith spent a month in the Women’s House of Detention with Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day for failing to take cover during air raid drills in 1957. Malina went on to have quite a successful career in Hollywood."The culmination of this late 60’s period was Paradise Now a four to five hour collective creation with a great deal of audience participation. The play consisted of rituals visions and actions moving up an ideal ladder to paradise. Between each rung on the ladder space was given for the audience to react/participate. The play was often the scene of mass participation much nudity utopian discourse arguments and sometimes arrests since the last action of the play was to take the theater into the streets. The play opened in July 1968 at the Avignon Festival in France. Judith and Julian had participated in the occupation of the Odeon Theater in Paris in May. The festival asked the company to substitute another play due to the controversy and sensation of the event. The company refused and left the festival†Living Theater. They returned soon after Paradise Now and have been in continued existence since that time all the while cleaving closely to Beck’s battle cry of "All for the Beautiful Non- Violent Anarchist Revolution.†N.p unknown
1975595206Chicago: Modern Poetry Association 1975. Softcover. Near Fine. Volume 126 Number 3. Octavo. P.125-186. Printed green wrappers. A bit of wear along the spine bumping and a small split at the base else about near fine. Signed by Alfred Corn above his poem "Parable at a Roman Fountain." Contributions by Alfred Corn Judith Moffett Vern Rutsala Michael Burkard Deborah Trustman David Wagoner Michael Mott. Modern Poetry Association) unknown
1954106451954. One b&w illus. 6 pp. Single blue sheet two vertical folds. Paris: A L’Etoile Scellée 1954.<br /> <br> <br> A rare A L’Etoile Scellée exhibition announcement for Reigl’s 1923-2020 solo show. The Hungarian painter presented 14 works all of which are recorded in the check-list; one of them is likely reproduced here. On the reverse a short and enthusiastic commentary by André Breton lauds her practice. Near fine; a trifle wrinkled. unknown
19662080202105500256Octagon Books 1966. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Octagon Books paperback
943836034Brand_New. New condition - ships in ONE day. unknown
185843455London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans. Printed by Woodfall and Kinder 1858. Newly revised and much enlarged edition the 3rd printing to include "Foreign and Jewish Cookery." Late 19th Century Cloth Binding 12mo; xlvii 643 32 pages 714 total 8 leaves of plates all present. 18 cm. <br> Early printing following the addition in 1855 three years earlier of a new section on "Foreign and Jewish Cookery;" That was also the first edition issued under the now-famous title Modern Cookery for Private Families.<br> Includes index and 32-page publisher's catalogue after text.<br> <br> Famously Lady Judith Montefiore published the first English-language Kosher cookbook The Jewish Manual in 1846 primarily for other Jewish housewives and meal planners. <br> Less than a decade later however leading British cookbook author Eliza Acton took Lady Montefiore's Jewish cooking tips one step further celebrating and normalizing them for cooks of all backgrounds across the Commonwealth through a new expanded edition of her best-selling cookbook Modern Cookery.<br> Journalist Rita Ehrlich notes that between these two works "The first Jewish recipes published in English reveal the place of accomplished Jewish women in 19th Century high society.<br> Among the welter of cookbooks published in 19th century England Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery for Private Families stands out for its clarity its practicality its occasional humour and its inclusion of Jewish food.<br> First published in 1845.The 1855 edition included a section on Foreign and Jewish Cookery and among the recipes was one for Jewish Almond Pudding. It was one of the few recipes Acton had not tested herself. 'We have tasted the puddings . more than once and have received the exact directions for them from the Jewish lady at whose house they were made.'<br> A Jewish lady - presumably the same one - provided her and thereby the readers with the address of a Jewish butcher in the London suburb of Aldgate from whom one could procure smoked beef and a chorissa sausage. Acton noted that 'all meat supplied by Jew butchers is sure to be of first-rate quality as they are forbidden by the Mosaic Law to convert into food any animal which is not perfectly free from all 'spot or blemish''. She also noted that the Jewish dietary laws which forbade the mixing of dairy and meat were 'not very rigidly observed' by most English Jews.<br> The date of that book is striking. Jews were part of English society by 1855 with a Jewish Lord Mayor of London Sir David Salomons a leader in the campaign to allow Jews to sit in Parliament. Lionel de Rothschild took his seat in Parliament in 1858 the year of this copy's publication following the passing of the Jews Relief Act. He had been elected a number of times; the sticking point had been the need to swear the oath 'upon the true Faith of a Christian'.<br> Even if we did not know about the number of wealthy highly regarded and influential Jews in London at that time the fact that an author would include specifically Jewish recipes and shopping advice in a bestselling cookbook that also recommended Jewish butchers for the quality of the meat suggests strongly that there was companionable social exchange.<br> The almond pudding recipe appeared in an earlier book published in 1846 called The Jewish Manual edited by A Lady no doubt the same lady who had entertained Eliza Acton. She was almost certainly Lady Judith Montefiore wife of the influential philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore and the book was the first Jewish cookbook in the English language" Rita Ehrlich When 'A Lady' taught the English to cook kugel and Jews to be English 2022. <br> thejewishindependent.com.au/when-a-lady-taught-the-english-to-cook-kugel-and-jews-to-be-english.<br> <br> Eliza Acton 1799-1859 "was an English food writer and poet who produced one of Britain's first cookery books aimed at the domestic reader Modern Cookery for Private Families this work. The book introduced the now-universal practice of listing ingredients and giving suggested cooking times for each recipe. It included the first recipes in English for Brussels sprouts and for spaghetti.Some time after Modern Cookery was published Acton moved from Tonbridge to Hampstead north west London. She became the cookery correspondent for the weekly magazines The Ladies' Companion and Household Words and began writing.a new edition of Modern Cookery. This was published in 1855 and renamed as Modern Cookery for Private Families the name by which it is best known. This version contains an additional chapter named 'Foreign and Jewish Cookery'; the Jewish recipes are from Ashkenazi cuisine" Wikipedia.<br> Indeed Eliza Acton's "Modern Cookery. "is considered the first practical cookbook specifically geared toward the everyday cook. The schoolteacher poet and cookery writer Eliza Acton 1799-1859 published a number of poems as a young woman and 'in 1837 . her publishers Longmans suggested she should write something more practical than poetry so for the next few years she applied herself to meticulous research for the work by which she is best known: Modern Cookery for Private Families first published in 1845. The book was well received on its first appearance; critics thought it the best cookery book they had seen combining as it did clarity of instructions with excellent organisation. <br> The book was a lasting success running into several editions and was the standard work on the subject until the end of the century establishing Eliza Acton as the first of the modern cookery writers. She wrote with great charm and clarity but what marked the book as innovative was her original plan of listing very exactly the ingredients the time taken and pitfalls for the inexperienced cook. This was a completely new format all other books on the subject being far less exact in their instructions. <br> This became the standard way of writing cookery books."Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. <br> <br> Modern food journalists Sue Dyson and Roger McShane suggest that Acton's Modern Cookery "is an absolutely essential part of any serious cookbook collection" https://foodtourist.com/modern-cookery-for-private-families-by-eliza-acton. <br> <br> Contents:- Introductory Chapters. Trussing; Carving -- Soups -- Fish -- Dishes of Shell-Fish -- Gravies -- Sauces -- Cold Sauces Salads Etc. -- Store Sauces -- Forcemeats -- Boiling Roasting Etc. -- Beef -- Veal -- Mutton and Lamb -- Pork -- Poultry -- Game -- Curries Potted Meats Etc. -- Vegetables -- Pastry -- Soufflés Omlets Etc. -- Boiled Puddings -- Baked Puddings -- Eggs and Milk -- Sweet Dishes or Entremets -- Preserves -- Pickles -- Cakes -- Confectionary -- Dessert Dishes -- Syrups Liqueurs Etc. -- Coffee Chocolate Etc. -- Bread -- Foreign and Jewish Cookery.<br> <br> For more on Acton and this book's impact on modern food culture see for example Sheila Hardy's The Real Mrs Beeton: The Story of Eliza Acton The History Press 2011; Sophie Hill's Keeping up Appearances: Economy vs. Extravagance in Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery <br> https://recipes.hypotheses.org/tag/eliza-acton; and the Wikipedia page dedicated to this groundbreaking cookbook <br> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Cookery_for_Private_Families. <br> <br> SUBJECTS: Cooking English. Cuisine anglaise. Cookbooks. Publishers' catalogs.<br> The University of West Virginia keeps their copy in their Rare Book Room. <br> OCLC: 2613184 for 1859 printing. <br> Front inside hinge just starting light wear to crown of spine Good Condition. Important B Food-1-1-'!yyox. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. Printed by Woodfall and Kinder unknown