The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.
por TOKLAS, Alice B
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London, United Kingdom
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London: Michael Joseph,, 1954. The unexpurgated true first, inscribed to a Parisian abstract artist First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "For Jeanne Coppel, appreciatively, Alice B. Toklas", and signed by the illustrator on the same page with a drawing of a rose. The painter and collagist Jeanne Coppel (1896-1971) was an early practitioner of abstract and surrealist art who lived in Paris from 1919. She studied at Montparnasse's Académie Ranson under the Nabis painters Édouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, and Paul Sérusier. Her works featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1961. A melange of traditional French recipes and anecdotes of Toklas's life with Gertrude Stein in Paris, the Cook Book is notorious for the "Hashich Fudge" recipe on page 259, given to Toklas by Brion Gysin, which was expurgated from the US edition published two days later. The recipe is a variation on the Moroccan confection majoun, which Gysin recommends as "an entertaining refreshment for a Ladies' Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution... Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter, ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected" (p. 259). Octavo. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt on green ground and decorated in gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge green. With supplied dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece, chapter vignettes, and full-page line drawings, all by Rose. Ink annotation to p. 246. Cloth rubbed, endpapers and outer leaves lightly foxed, contents otherwise clean; unclipped jacket slightly rubbed and toned, especially on spine, extremities a little worn with tape repairs to verso: a very good copy in very good jacket.
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- Livreiro
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 173011
- Título
- The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.
- Autor
- TOKLAS, Alice B
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- Usado
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- Local de publicação
- London: Michael Joseph,
- Data de publicação
- 1954
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Peter Harrington
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London
Sobre Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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