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“STUNNING & HAIR-RAISING”
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(FILM.)
Up Tight.
Poster, 30x13-3/8
inches; faint creases where folded.
Sydney, [1968]
[400/600]
Poster for the Australian release of Jules Dassin’s re-
make of Liam O’Flaherty’s “The Informer.” Dassin
changed the setting from Dublin’s time of the
“Troubles,” and the Irish uprising against the British
to Cleveland, following the assassination of Martin
Luther King, Jr. Roger Ebert in reviewing the film said
“In detailing this basic confrontation, Dassin, whose
first American film this is in almost 20 years,
immediately jumps into the center of a social
phenomenon that has been carefully avoided by almost
everybody except a few documentary filmmakers and, of
course, the national magazines.The effect—on the big
movie theater screen—is stunning and hair-raising.”
THE FIRST COOK BOOK BY AN
AFRICAN-AMERICAN
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(FOOD AND DRINK.) FISHER,
MRS. ABBY.
What Mrs Fisher Knows
About Old Southern Cooking, Soups,
Pickles, Preserves, etc.
72 pages. Small 8vo,
original gilt and blind-stamped red cloth,
somewhat mottled, but sound; archival repair to
the bottom of the title-page, with a few words
provided in facsimile, some stains in the text as
is common with cook books.
San Francisco:Womens’ Cooperative Printing
Office, 1881
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COOK BOOK AUTHORED BY AN AFRICAN
-
AMERICAN
.
Abby
Fisher was born in 1832, according to the San Francisco census records for 1880, which describes
her as a mulatto cook. Fisher was born in South Carolina of a black mother and a “French
gentleman” (probably white). She married while still in South Carolina and then moved her family
to California. In San Francisco, the Fishers opened a pickling company—apparently good pickles at
that.They were awarded two medals at the San Francisco Mechanics Institute Fair for best pickles.
A rare book. Biting, 158.
NO COPY IN 30YEARS AT AUCTION
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(FOOD AND DRINK.) TURNER, MRS. BERTHA L.
The Federation
Cook Book.A Collection of Tested Recipes Contributed by the ColoredWomen
of the State of California.
Twelve pages of advertisements of local merchants,
throughout the text. 94 pages, plus Index at the end; a few recipes penciled in, as well as
several inserted recipes. 8vo, original printed stiff grey wrappers, somewhat discolored
with light general wear, small diagonal chips to top and bottom front cover.
Pasadena, circa 1910
[1,500/2,500]
VERY SCARCE
.
OCLC LOCATES SEVEN COPIES
,
ONE OF THEM
(
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
)
DEFECTIVE
.
According to the cover, Bertha L. Turner was the State Superintendent of
Domestic Science at Pasadena.We could find nothing more about Mrs.Turner, nor any auction
record for this cook book in the last 30 years of auction records.
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