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[Collection of Photographs and Ephemera Showing Exquisite, Award-Winning Cakes]

[Collection of Photographs and Ephemera Showing Exquisite, Award-Winning Cakes]

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Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC
Title
[Collection of Photographs and Ephemera Showing Exquisite, Award-Winning Cakes]
Seller
Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York, NewYork, 1960. Very good. 115 photographs, 25 clippings and 6 letters, most of which were removed from scrapbooks. Most photographs measure around 8” x 10” or larger and 11 are captioned. Generally very good: tiny hole to corner of one loose photo; several pages and images lightly to moderately chipped or soiled; one clipping with heavy insect predation; a few bits of loss. This is an incredible collection of photographs, clippings from newspapers and culinary journals, and correspondence documenting the skill and success of an award-winning pastry chef, Eugene Griesshaber. Griesshaber was, per a clipping in this collection, “born and trained in Germany.” He was the first pastry chef at New York's Hotel Governor Clinton in the 1930s and worked at the historic luxury Biltmore Hotel in the 1950s, apparently breaking to serve in the United States Army during World War II. The materials here reveal several of Griesshaber's entries into the Salon of Culinary Art, a competition held in connection with the annual National Hotel Exposition in New York. During his career the skilled chef won top honors at least five times and received the “'Hors Concours,' a distinction awarded only to those winning the Grand Award three times in succession.” Most of the images reveal the completed, awe-inspiring cakes, though a few show the chef at work or standing proudly beside his creations. Several clippings from newspapers and culinary publications document cakes that took home the Grand Prize, including one dedicated to Grace Moore, the “Tennessee Nightingale,” an Academy Award-nominated soprano and actress whose films helped popularize opera by bringing it to the big screen. The stunning cake held a 36-inch high, intricately detailed “statuette” of the star, “made entirely of spun sugar . . . Using 100 pounds of granulated sugar, Griesshaber completed the figure in about sixty hours.” The collection includes a photograph of the cake, signed by Moore and inscribed “To Eugene Griesshaber / In remembrance and appreciation / 1936.” Another news-making cake “won the gold medal awarded by the French Government” at the Salon and “consisted of an exterior of the Temple of Buddha with the figure of Buddha done in white pastillage, or gum paste. This was surrounded by chrysanthemums made of drawn sugar set in colored vases of blown sugar and trays of petit fours and bon-bons.” Other photographs reveal a cake with a spun-sugar NRA eagle atop a portrait of President Roosevelt in cocoa, and one with a candy ship, Statue of Liberty and ring of saluting soldiers. We also see exquisite birthday, Valentine's Day, Christmas and “Engagement” cakes, as well as a few in honor of important anniversaries. One four-tier stunner was made for the Ford Motor Company's first anniversary, featuring candy cars and a statuette holding the Ford logo. The clippings also include a recipe for spiced oranges that Griesshaber contributed to a 1933 issue of The Hotel Gazette, complete with an image of the medal he received at the previous year's Exposition, as well as a 1936 recipe in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, with handwritten amendments, for a “warm dessert for winter.” Six letters in the collection add a distinctly personal touch and include heartfelt congratulations from managers on hotel letterhead. A fantastic collection revealing the labor and notoriety of a skilled pastry chef.
Nouvelle Génération. La Jeunesse Interroge Le Lettrisme. No. 1 (January/February 1962) through No. 2 (March/April 1962) (all published)

Nouvelle Génération. La Jeunesse Interroge Le Lettrisme. No. 1 (January/February 1962) through No. 2 (March/April 1962) (all published)

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Seller: Bernett Rare Books Inc
Title
Nouvelle Génération. La Jeunesse Interroge Le Lettrisme. No. 1 (January/February 1962) through No. 2 (March/April 1962) (all published)
Seller
Bernett Rare Books Inc (United States)
Description
A complete run in 2 issues (12 and 8 pp., respectively) of the short-lived Lettrist journal conceived of by a group of young students consisting of Thierry Paul-Lévy, Paulette Liétard, Patrick Brault, Guy Chastel, and Jean-Charles Depaule, and published with the help of the Lettrists, directed by Jacques Spacagna with collaborative assistance from Isidore Isou and Maurice Lemaître. Not illustrated. Some slight toning, especially along edges, minor scattered soiling. 4to. Original stapled self-wrpps. Paris, 1962. Isidore Isou, a Romanian-born French poet, film critic, and artist, founded the art and literary Lettrist movement in Paris in the mid-1940s. Drawing inspiration from Dada and Surrealism, the Lettrist body of work encompasses all areas of art and culture, including poetry, film, painting, and political theory. The movement was named for its early focus on letters and other visual or spoken symbols. This periodical contains contributions from the student group and from major Lettrist figures, including Patrick Brault, Jean-Charles Depaule, Pierre Descamps, Paulette Liétard, Pierre Gaillard, Marcel Beuret, Jacques Spacagna, and a long piece by Isou titled "Contre la Megapneumie", a critique of Gil J. Wolman, an avant-garde artist and fellow member of the Lettrist movement.
A Year's Life

A Year's Life by LOWELL, James Russell

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Seller: Bull's Head Rare Books
Title
A Year's Life
Author
LOWELL, James Russell
Seller
Bull's Head Rare Books (United States)
Description
Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1841. First edition. 8vo. viii, 182 pp., errata slip tipped-in at rear. Publisher's tan boards, printed spine label; near fine, with slight wear and offsetting to covers, in custom green cloth slipcase and chemise First edition in publisher's boards of Lowell's first major publication, preceded only by a Harvard poem and class address. With p. 41, l. 9, ending with an exclamation point (as indicated in errata slip); in some copies the exclamation is not present. PROVENANCE: early ownership signature ("C.L. Inches") in pencil on half-title; Mrs. J. Insley Blair (Blairhame book-label) REFERENCE: BAL 13037
DRAWING RESTRAINT VOL. II

DRAWING RESTRAINT VOL. II by BARNEY, Matthew

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Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Title
DRAWING RESTRAINT VOL. II
Author
BARNEY, Matthew
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Fine.
Description
(Tokyo): Uplink, 2005. First Edition. Fine.. Artist-book exhibition catalog for Barney's traveling show of 2005-06. Wraps. 8vo. Flexible plastic wraps. 161pp. With full-color illustrations. Fine. SIGNED by Barney to title page.
A Weekend with Mr. Frank: A Book of Five Reproductions and One Original Print

A Weekend with Mr. Frank: A Book of Five Reproductions and One Original Print by Hibi, Yuichi

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Seller: Dawson's Book Shop
Title
A Weekend with Mr. Frank: A Book of Five Reproductions and One Original Print
Author
Hibi, Yuichi
Seller
Dawson's Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Nazraeli Press, Tucson, 2006. Fine. First Edition, Limited edition: 500 copies 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, unnumbered pages, boards, Signed by the photographer, Hand-written title page by Yuichi Hibi, with images numbered by Hibi.
The Killers

The Killers by Baxter, George Owen (pseud. for Frederick Faust, aka Max Brand)

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Seller: ReadInk
Title
The Killers
Author
Baxter, George Owen (pseud. for Frederick Faust, aka Max Brand)
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good. (c.1931, 1928). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, some browning/spotting to page edges, light bumps and slight fraying to cloth at bottom corners, one-time owner's signature in pencil on ffep, tiny tear at fore-edge of title page]. Crime novel that segues to a Western setting about halfway through (hence the Western-motif front-cover decoration of a man on horseback waving a large hat), by this prolific pulp novelist, one of eleven books he wrote under the Baxter pseudonym between 1923 and 1935. This tells the exploits of "Geraldi, dashing knight errant, [who] is a modern Robin Hood who preys only upon those who have preyed upon others." Originally serialized in Western Story Magazine in 1928; later published (as by Max Brand) as "Three on the Trail," and subsequently in paperback as "Gunman's Goal." [The original serial title was probably "Tragedy Trail," although I've not verified this directly; another seller claims it was "Three on the Trail," but that title does not appear among the list of serials credited to Baxter during 1928.] (**) .
The Silver Spoon
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The Silver Spoon

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Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB
Title
The Silver Spoon
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780714845319
Condition
Very Good
Description
Phaidon Press, 2006. Very Good. The Silver Spoon. New York City: Phaidon Press, 2006. 1263pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Covers lightly soiled.

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