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OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL

OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL by Wolf, Emma

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Title
OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL
Author
Wolf, Emma
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Very good.
Description
Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1892. Very good.. First edition of this interfaith contemporary romance - the "first American novel written by a Jew on a Jewish theme for an American audience" (D. G. Myers) - inscribed by the author to her brother. Wolf was a Jewish woman and wheelchair user born in California; her father, an immigrant from France, helped settle the Bay area in the 1840s. In the Gilded Age, most Jewish representation focused on the Eastern European immigrants living on the East Coast, especially New York City: Wolf's novels of high society in the West add welcome complexity to the literary landscape and counteract monolithic interpretations of US Jewish culture. This was Wolf's first novel, and its importance was immediately recognized, as evidenced in a letter Israel Zangill sent to the author, telling her: "Certainly you are the best product of American Judaism since Emma Lazarus." An interfaith romance between a Jewish woman and Christian man set in 1880s San Francisco, OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL was a popular and influential novel that navigates the potential obstacles of an intermarriage with a poise and delicacy. When her mother becomes ill, the heroine comes into contact with the local doctor, a young and charming Christian man. The two fall in love and agree to get married, neither concerned about their differing religions nor expecting the other to convert. But the heroine's father objects to the marriage on the grounds that the gulf is too wide. Unable to proceed with a marriage her father cannot accept, the heroine breaks off the engagement. After attempting and failing to match her with a Jewish cousin, the heroine's father can no longer ignore the connection between the couple and gives them his blessing. What is especially remarkable about this romance is that it remains prominently interfaith, focusing on their common beliefs (e.g. in God, human goodness) while creating space for each to cherish their individual beliefs. A landmark in American fiction and the history of romance literature. 6.75'' x 4''. Original brown cloth with black-stamped floral frame on front board, gilt-lettered spine. Publisher's ads at rear. 275, [1], [4] pages. Inscribed by Wolf: "With 'the author's' love to her dear, every day dearer brother." Spine lean, wear along front joint and spine ends, bumping to corners: interior clean.
How to Cook Rice. Presented by the Louisiana Rice Exhibit, New Orleans

How to Cook Rice. Presented by the Louisiana Rice Exhibit, New Orleans by [New Orleans Board of Trade; Department of Agriculture; Louisiana Rice Exhibit]

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Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
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How to Cook Rice. Presented by the Louisiana Rice Exhibit, New Orleans
Author
[New Orleans Board of Trade; Department of Agriculture; Louisiana Rice Exhibit]
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
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[New Orleans]; New York: [The Board of Trade; Printed by] H. R. Elliot & Co., Printers and Embossers, 1910. Stapled booklet (10.25 x 15.25 cm.), [14] unnumbered leaves; printed text decorated with red borders, on rectos only. Cover title: Recipes for Cooking Rice. Author information inferred from external evidence. Printer from rear panel of wrappers. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional publication designed “to create a greater interest” in a foodstuff that had yet to become a staple in many parts of the United States. With a dozen recipes, including Gumbo Soup, Jambalaya, Belle Calas (fritters), Rice Pudding, Riz au Lait. ~ The phrase “Louisiana Rice Exhibit” can be found in reference to displays in the agricultural halls of world’s fairs – the World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), for instance, as well as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, 1904) – but in the event the phrase is better understood not as an installation but as a program. The New Orleans Board of Trade had indeed exploited opportunities to educate the public by such means (cf A. C. Cantley, “Rice Display by Louisiana at World's Fair of 1904,” The Planter and Sugar Manufacturer 32, no. 7 [February 13, 1904], page 121), but it would have been highly unlikely for booklets such as How to Cook Rice to have been produced specifically for them without bearing any mark of the association. Moreover, Louisiana Rice Exhibits, so-named, were also staged at parish fairs, livestock shows, even horse races. Their visual aspect was meant to entrance and amuse. “The New Orleans Board of Trade made a very splendid exhibit,” a trade paper reported, “at the National Farm and Livestock Show with a display of all the products it handles, with the centerpiece a working model of a rice mill” (“Current Rice News Notes,” The Rice Journal and Southern Farmer 19, no. 12 (December 1916), page 33). ~ Founded in 1880, the Board itself coordinated, among many other activities, rice shipments from mills in Louisiana and, to a smaller extent, from eastern Texas and Arkansas, too. In this case, their printing contract with H. R. Elliot & Co. places the publication later than the Chicago Exposition, as this form of name was not in use until after 1900 (“The Manufacturing Stationer,” Walden’s Stationer and Printer 31 [Spring 1909], page 16). The date of issue proposed here rests on reports that the Board of Trade distributed booklets in or perhaps slightly before 1910 (a note, for example, from the American Poultry World recorded that recipes from the Louisiana Rice Exhibit of New Orleans had been received (1, no. 5 [March 1910], pages 354-355). ~ Interior clean and bright. Stapled in ivory wrappers with gilt illustration of rice plants overseen by a pelican (in honor of the Pelican State). Near fine. [OCLC locates four copies; Uhler 252; New Orleans Culinary History Group, page 152; not in Bitting, Brown or Cagle].

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