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Making a Sacher Torte: Nine Poems, Twelve Illustrations
by Wakoski, Diane; Ellen Lanyon (illustrator); [Walter Hamady (printer)]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Alfred, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Mount Horeb, Wisc: Perishable Press Limited, 1981. Small quarto (28.5 x 19 cm.), [iv, 28] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION, limited. "The edition is but 225 copies & you have no. 195" (colophon). A prefatory text reads, "Herewith published as a sequel to the 1974 Wandering Tattler but replacing birds with food, cooking, eating and drinking in the season of harvest & All Saints Day, Perry Township near Minor Confluence/Wisconsin." Contents. 1. Having replaced love with food and drink (a poem for those who have reached forty) -- 2. Breakfast -- 3. My mother's milkman -- 4. Making a sacher torte -- 5. Pamela's green tomato pie -- 6. Saturday night (for Barbara Drake) -- 7. Ode to a Lebanese crock of olives (for Walter's Aunt Libby's diligence in making green olives -- 8. Sally Plum -- 9. Coprinus comatus : evening mushrooms, morning milk [i.e. ink]. Paste-paper boards over blind-titled, grey morocco spine. Fine. While well-represented in institutional collections, this book is scarce in the marketplace. [Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection 82.16].
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- Bookseller
- Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8404
- Title
- Making a Sacher Torte: Nine Poems, Twelve Illustrations
- Author
- Wakoski, Diane; Ellen Lanyon (illustrator); [Walter Hamady (printer)]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Perishable Press Limited
- Place of Publication
- Mount Horeb, Wisc
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- food writing, literature, small press, fine press, poetry, first edition, 2023bibweek, 1017
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
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Alfred, Maine
About Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
Rabelais is always serving up fine books about food, drink, farming and gardening. We carry a sizable stock of rare books, alongside prints, photographs and ephemera, all concerned with the pleasures of the senses.
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