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Correspondence from Julia Child to Beverly Jackson, with photographs and other materials

Correspondence from Julia Child to Beverly Jackson, with photographs and other materials by Child, Julia; Beverly Jackson

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Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
Title
Correspondence from Julia Child to Beverly Jackson, with photographs and other materials
Author
Child, Julia; Beverly Jackson
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
[Santa Barbara; Cambridge, 2003. A convolute of correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the relationship between American icon Julia Child, and Beverly Jackson, reporter, novelist, collector, and a legend of the social circles of Santa Barbara. The two were long-time friends, and neighbors in Santa Barbara's Montecito. ~ Contents: Fifteen original note cards or postcards, typed or handwritten, signed by Julia Child; one TLS; one fax, and one TLS in photocopy. Some on Child's Montecito Shores, Santa Barbara stationery, some on notecards of Julia Child Productions (SB), and some on notecards from the Irving Street, Cambridge home. Most of the correspondence is short, polite "thank yous" and quick inquiries, for visits, meals shared, etc. ~ Eight original photographs (various sizes & dates), including black and white press print by Alan Berliner (of Julia with Robert Mondavi and Robert Balzer); Julia with Reginald Faletti (1978) by Jackson; color snapshots of Julia in her kitchen, elsewhere signing a book with Beverly Jackson and Jacques Pepin; Julia and others on the ground at a picnic; Julia on a fishing boat (1983); Julia Paul and others at an outdoor event (Jackson, n.d.). ~ Materials related to a 1993 special charity dinner saluting Julia on her 80th Birthday. Included are The program for the event; "Julia Child, Merci Julia", an ink jet typescript, 15 pages of an account of the birthday event, its planning and execution, by Jackson; and original menu for the event, with notes by Jackson; an original photo (sepia toned?) with attendees of the event including Jackson, Celia Chang, Alice Waters, and Ruth Reichl, wearing original East Asian textiles (likely taken at Jackson's home – she was a collector of rare Asian garments and textiles); and a comb-bound book of recipe contributions, some on original stationery and some in photocopy, from the event's many chefs (at least forty-four, including: David Bouley, Arianne Duguin, Daniel Boulud, Hubert Keller, Gray Kunz, Gilbert le Coze, Sirio Maccioni, Drew Nieporent, Jean-Louis Palladin, Alain Sailhac, Joachim Spichal, and others). As the menu book is compiled from both original and photocopy recipes from the chefs, the number of copies of this book made must have been very small (ten or fewer, I would expect).
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes by Babbage, Charles

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Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB
Title
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes
Author
Babbage, Charles
Seller
Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description
London: B. Fellowes, 1830. First edition. RARE SCATHING DIATRIBE AGAINST THE ROYAL SOCIETY BY ENGLISH ORIGINATOR OF THE CONCEPT OF THE DIGITAL COMPUTER--COPY OF PROMINENT JOURNALIST OF THE PERIOD. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches hardcover, 3/4 brown calf with marbled cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt, with red leather label gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate to front paste-down, ink signature of George Augustus Sala on paper affixed to front free endpaper, xvi,+ 228,+ (4). Cover edges worn, scattered foxing, binding tight, very good. CHARLES BABBAGE (1792-1871) was an English polymath, mathematician, philosopher, inventor and originator of the concept of a digital programmable computer. In The Exposition of 1851, or Views of the Industry, the Science and the Government of England (1851) he pointed out the shortcomings of the British educational system. His Reflections on the Decline of Science and some of its Causes (offered here) aimed to improve British science, and more particularly to oust Davies Gilbert as President of the Royal Society, which Babbage wished to reform. It was written out of pique, when Babbage hoped to become the junior secretary of the Royal Society, as Herschel was the senior, but failed because of his antagonism to Humphry Davy. Michael Faraday had a reply written, by Gerrit Moll, as On the Alleged Decline of Science in England (1831). On the front of the Royal Society Babbage had no impact, with the bland election of the Duke of Sussex to succeed Gilbert the same year. As a broad manifesto, on the other hand, his Decline led promptly to the formation in 1831 of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes is one of seven early 19th century science books described in James Secord's Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age (2014). These seven books, "fire the imagination of a generation that believed science was on the verge of transforming the human condition. ... The Decline of Science portrayed English science as moribund and corrupt, and looked to the Continent, especially to France, for models of scientific reform. Appearing in May 1830, the book sold badly—it went through only one edition, probably of less than 750 copies—but it stirred up a storm of discussion, debate, and distress. Much of the argument in Decline revolves around the issue of how research should be communicated in print, and how its results should be made available to various audiences. Independently wealthy and educated at Cambridge, Babbage had a wide acquaintance with metropolitan literary and political circles, which he used, through his famous evening parties in his house at Dorset Street, to raise the position of science in national life. Like a true accountant, the narrator of Decline directed his fire at those who worked for pay, whether for the state, for a public company, or for a learned society. The book named names, and claimed not to hide criticisms of individuals under general condemnation. Young men were currently discouraged from cultivating science after leaving university because science—unlike medicine, the clergy, law, and the military—was not 'a distinct profession', with status and pay. The taxonomy of fraud in Decline provided a tool whereby science could assume its rightful status as a completely open enterprise, comprehensible not just to adepts and experts, but to 'ordinary understandings' more likely to be fooled or misled. The most significant long-term effect of Decline was to open a general discussion of the political economy of intellectual life, the suppression of ignorance and fraud, and the promotion of the use of knowledge for human needs, would best be served by secular—not religious education; for among the unenlightened, even true religion was tinged by 'superstition' and developed irrational habits of thought." PROVENANCE: GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY SALA (1828 - 1895), was an English journalist. He had become in 1857 a contributor to the Daily Telegraph, and it was in this capacity that he did his most characteristic work, whether as a foreign correspondent in all parts of the world, or as a writer of "leaders" or special articles. His literary style, highly colored, bombastic, egotistic, and full of turgid periphrases, gradually became associated by the public with their conception of the Daily Telegraph; and though the butt of the more scholarly literary world, his articles were invariably full of interesting matter and helped to make the reputation of the paper. He collected a large library and had an elaborate system of keeping common-place books, so that he could be turned on to write upon any conceivable subject with the certainty that he would bring into his article enough show or reality of special information to make it excellent reading for a not very critical public. In 1892, when his popular reputation was at its height, he started a weekly paper called Sala's Journal, but it was a disastrous failure; and in 1895 he had to sell his library of 13,000 volumes (one of which is offered here). His name goes down to posterity as perhaps the most popular and most voluble of the newspaper men of the period.
ON THE FRONTIER. A MELODRAMA IN THREE ACTS

ON THE FRONTIER. A MELODRAMA IN THREE ACTS by AUDEN, W. H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher

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Title
ON THE FRONTIER. A MELODRAMA IN THREE ACTS
Author
AUDEN, W. H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Touch of foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper lightly soiled with wear at crown. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper
Description
London: Faber & Faber, (1938). First British Edition. Hardcover. Touch of foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper lightly soiled with wear at crown. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Bloomfield & Mendelson A18: 3000 copies printed, preceding the American edition.
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Dead Babies by Amis, Martin

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Title
Dead Babies
Author
Amis, Martin
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Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Knopf, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. First American Edition as stated on copyright page. Original price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Author's second book. Former book owner's embossed insignia on title page.
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The Information by Amis, Martin

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The Information
Author
Amis, Martin
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Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
ISBN
9780002253567
Condition
Fine
Description
Jonathan Cape, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket, signed and dated by the author on the title page. Complete row of numbers from 9 to 1 on the copyright page.
Manhattan Jungle, The Adventures of a Life Underwriter

Manhattan Jungle, The Adventures of a Life Underwriter by Ran, Kip (Lowell King Randolph)

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Manhattan Jungle, The Adventures of a Life Underwriter
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Ran, Kip (Lowell King Randolph)
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
New York: Exposition Press, 1956. 174 pp. First edition. Minor wear to jacket with rubbing, fading, and some smudging on the back of the jacket. Signed by the author.
A Handlist of Manuscripts in the Library of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall

A Handlist of Manuscripts in the Library of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall by William Roscoe, Frederic Madden, and Seymour De Ricci

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A Handlist of Manuscripts in the Library of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall
Author
William Roscoe, Frederic Madden, and Seymour De Ricci
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 64pp. Scattered foxing throughout, darkened overall with some minor loss at the edges, ink name on front, else very good in publisher's yapped wraps.

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