Sale 688: Rare Books & Manuscripts - Alcoholics Anonymous - Miniature Books (#688) 11/21/2019 11:00 AM PST

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Lot 33 of 338:
Arion Press, A Commonplace Book of Cookery  

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Title:
A Commonplace Book of Cookery
Author:
Grabhorn, Robert, compiler
Place:
San Francisco
Publisher:
Arion Press
Date:
1975
Description:

Preface by M.F.K. Fisher. Illustrated with vignettes. Printed on English Inveresk cream Mould-made paper. (8vo) original cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. One of 425 copies. First Edition.

Laid in is the prospectus, a Grabhorn-Hoyem pricelist, and the prospectus/broadside for Andrew Hoyem's Picture/Poems—the prospectus in which he announced the imprint Arion Press and tells the story of Arion and the Dolphin with an illustration of Arion & the Dolphin from a drawing by Hoyem. 

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Condition:
Fine.
 
Item number:
309939
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