Titles starting with J from Rabelais - Fine Books on Food, Wine & the Arts

Louis CarrŽ, 1954. Quarto (290 x 195mm), 62 pages. First edition, one of an edition of 1000 copies on Arches. Publisher's presentation copy with a card laid in stating "Hommage de l'Editeur," Some light foxing throughout, some wear to foot of spine else a near fine copy in publisher's illustrated wrappers with original glassine. ... more information

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Guggenheim Museum, 1957. Quarto, unpaginated. First edition of this important exhibition catalogue featuring the three brothers. Illustrated throughout in black and white, and with tipped-in color plates. The idea for the exhibition, as well as the design and selection of texts for the catalogue were all initiated by Marcel Duchamp. A near fine copy of this scarce catalogue, which also includes three enclosures: an errata slip, an exhibition checklist, and an announcment of a delay in the opening of the ex... more information

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Le Terrain Vague, (1957). Thick octavo, 501 pages, plus a large folding diagram. First edition of this self described "abecedaire definitif des perversions sexuelles" from this founder of Lettrism. Printed on cream and blue paper. In publisher's two color printed wrappers, with a map of the attitudes of eroticism. Lacking one quarter of the folding diagram (which is frequently entirely missing), with some staining and soiling throughout, otherwise a good or better copy. ... more information

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n.p., 1957. 23.5 x. 300cm. Small poster, printed on green newsprint in a nineteenth century broadside manner, advertising a concert of Contemporary American Music at Carl Fischer Music Hall on West 57th Street, NYC in 1957. The program included Cage's Music for Four Pianos and Winter Music, as well as pieces by Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Poster folded once leaving a vertical crease down the center, otherwise an almost very good copy, with light edgewear and darkening. Scarce. ... more information

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Bobbs Merrill, 1946. Thick octavo, 884 pages. The 1946 printing, sometimes called the "Post-war edition", was an update of the first major revision, the 1943 "War-time" edition. The only cookbook to be included in the New York Public Library's list, "150 Influential Books of the Century." A very good, clean copy in the gingham-patterned, light blue cloth. In a scarce near very good dust jacket, with a bit of light edge staining to the rear panel, and some chipping to the head ... more information

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