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160pp, canary yellow boards and end papers, glossy paper, many color and b&w photos. Rare dj is in clear protective binder. First edition (1958) of this classic late fifties salad recipe book, fascinating look at food culture of the time. Contents include: Salad-making basics, Fruit Salads, Vegetable Salads, Meat, Poultry and Seafood Salads, Egg and Cheese Salads, Salad Dressing and Garnishes, Salad Meals and Salad Partners, Index. Such fifties classics as Melon Polka-dot Mold, Clam Mountain, Molded Waldorfs, Carrot 'n' Cabbage Tower.

153pp, burgundy cloth w/orange end papers, photo on dust jacket of Freud's couch. Signed on ffep by photographer Edmund Engelman, who photographed Freud's home and consulting offices in fifty-four images a few days before the family fled Vienna in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution. Beautiful photos of a fascinating house and setting for the man that invented psychoanalysis and the idea of the subconscious.

176pp, goldenrod end papers. No dustjacket. B&W photos and images of manuscripts. SIGNED by George Arthur Plimpton, (grandfather of American journalist George Plimpton) and inscribed and dated: "To Dr. and Mrs. Seth Milliken with the high regard of the author, Geo. A Plimpton 1936." Seth Minot Milliken [1875-1957] was a surgeon and civic leader. From the Introduction: "The success of my book on The Education of Shakespear has encouraged me to attempt a similar work on The Education of Chaucer. As in the earlier volume, the material I use is based entirely on manuscripts in my own library. Although some of these are not exactly contemporary with Chaucer, each is illustrative of the works used in his time. " Fascinating insight into Chaucer's education and that of scholars in the Fourteenth century. Only signed copy online.