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A Concise Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy
$300.00
Simon, Andre L.
London: Collector’s Book Club, 1952. Â
Limited edition, number 20 of 100 copies signed by the author.
Bound in full red Morocco, top edge gilt, 5 raised bands, 4 gilt decorated compartments, author and title in gilt.
Bookseller’s small label (harkening back to the days of NYC’s famed Fourth Avenue books district), few stray marks to front pastedown, front hinge starting. Â Leather with minimal rubbing. Â Overall, a vibrant near fine copy.
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$300.00Phaidon Press, 2018. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Stella on front free endpaper. Illustrated covers, paperbound with French flaps.  A fine, bright copy.
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SCARCE SIGNED COPY OF LA AUTHOR'S 3RD BOOK
SEX AND RAGE: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time
$995.00The third book by a 1970s Los Angeles “it girl”, an autobiographical novel in which Jacaranda revels in the pleasures of being a sexy beach bum in Los Angeles until  after too many nights of “14 white ladies” she wakes up and takes an opposite path, moving to New York and a world of focus and work.  This novel has been described as one which solidified “her place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literature—haunting, alluring, and alive.” SIGNED on title page and scarce thus. 227 pp.  Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket  (minor wear at the head of the dj spine)
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Signed by First Southern Pulitzer Winning Novelist
Black April
$800.00Bobbs Merrill: Indianapolis, 1927.  First edition, first issue with ‘ducks quacked’ on page 17 (Ahearn Collected Books).  “An extraordinary novel of Negro life on an isolated plantation” signed by the author on front free endpaper.  Black April was “accepted by the critics as being one of the best books ever written about the southern negro” (The Sunday Oregonian). A very good copy, gilt on spine and front cover dulled as usual in very good, first issue dust wrapper without Crawford blurb, price intact, extremities of spine a little chipped, one small edge tear to rear. Peterkin went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, the first southern novelist to receive that honor.  A household name for the better part of three decades, “Peterkin’s accomplishment lay in her upending the traditional plantation novel by replacing its gross stereotypes with rural black southerners of complexity, stamina, integrity, and courage, while valorizing the African spiritual inheritance as a transcendent force of cultural regeneration. Because no Uncle Toms, Aunt Jemimas or Colonels clad in white linen inhabited Peterkin’s fiction (indeed, white characters made rare appearances), and because she dared depict tender love and sex between black people, prickly white southerners viewed her suspiciously, perceiving her work as inflammatory and pornographic. In a letter to her mentor H.L. Mencken, Peterkin admitted the sting of her own family’s disdain. Her grown son, she relayed, urged her to write about ‘beautiful white men and women, not n-words.’  In a poignant confession of her alienation she tersely wrote, ‘No beautiful white people live in my head.'” (Life out of Darkness: The Recovery of Julia Peterkin, Forgotten Pulitzer Prize Winner by Elizabeth Robeson, M.Phil, Columbia University).
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Inscribed & Dated in Year of Publication
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
$500.00Princeton University Press, 2016. Â First Edition. Inscribed, signed and dated in year of publication by Penrose, winner of 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics. Fine in nearly fine dust wrapper with light crinkling to spine tip and rear corner.
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