GIFTS 98 “Invaluable Both To Accomplished Cooks And Beginners” 156BEARD, James. The New James Beard. New York, 1981. Octavo, original pictorial boards, dust jacket. $1200 First edition of Beard’s “impressive” cookbook, signed on the half title by James Beard. In this critically praised cookbook of nearly 1,000 recipes, James Beard “combines foods in new and appealing ways… The result is impressive… invaluable both to accomplished cooks and beginners… Beard’s personality comes through in his pleasant and affable prose… [and] the book is beautifully illustrated with line drawings by Karl Stuecklen” (New York Times). Fine. “Bon Appetit!” 157CHILD, Julia. From Julia Child’s Kitchen. New York, 1975. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, dust jacket. $1300 First trade edition of Child’s fourth cookbook, signed by Julia Child (with her characteristic “Bon appétit!”) and her husband Paul. Winner of three Emmys, the Peabody Award, the National Book Award, and the French Légion d’Honneur, Child was the first woman ever inducted into the Culinary Institute of America’s Hall of Fame and her kitchen has been installed in the Smithsonian. Book near-fine, dust jacket with mild toning to edges, closed tears, small chips to rear panel top, very good. “Painting Is An Infinitely Minute Part Of My Personality” 158DALÍ, Salvador. Les Dîners de Gala. New York, 1973. Thick folio (9 by 12 inches), original color-printed pictorial cloth, dust jacket. $800 First edition of this extravagant, lavishly illustrated cookbook created by Dalí in honor of his wife Gala. “When six years old I wanted to be a cook.” At age 68, Dalí fulfilled that ambition in this book. His careful selection of menus and recipes, “with its precepts and its illustrations, is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of Taste. Don’t look for dietetic formulas here.” Gala was Dalí’s wife and muse. With color plates and in-text photographs and illustrations on nearly every page. Preceded in 1971 by a portfolio of 12 colored lithographs under the same title, each reproduced in this enlarged edition. Near-fine.
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