Jane reid petty (3 risultati)

xii, 356 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Yellow paper covers; slender vertical band of color fading along rear cover's spine margin. Else an as new copy which remains in the publisher's original shrink-wrap. Indeterminate printing as that would require removing book from shrinkwrap but rather irrelevant as content did not change between printings. With an Introduction by editor Peggy W. Prenshaw and Index. Features a collection of twenty-six interviews with Eudora Welty by Henry Mitchell, William F. Buckley, Jr., Alice Walker, Bill Ferris, Jane Reid Petty, Reynolds Price, and others. ISBN 0878052062.…

First edition (not stated). xii, 356 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with slight color fading; minor bump to spine heel; vertical crease to front flap with price-clipped top right corner. Blue cloth with vibrant gilt stamped spine lettering. Negligible stain to upper fore-edge with a few leaves fractionally affected at margins; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Includes an Introduction by editor Peggy W. Prenshaw and Index. Features a collection of twenty-six interviews with Eudora Welty by Henry Mitchell, William F. Buckley, Jr., Alice Walker, Bill Ferris, Jane Reid Petty, Reynolds Price, among others. ISBN 0878052054.…

First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for latter upon copyright page). 380, [4] pages. Paperback: H 23cm x L 15.75cm. Blue paper covers in a white plastic comb-style binder; slight wear at covers' edges; front cover lightly rubbed but strong rubbing to rear cover. A few small stains to text block edges. Bottom fore-edge corner of pages 121-122 creased from past fold-in; a few scattered spots of minor soiling to interior leaves which overall remain quite clean. Binding is firm with plastic teeth all intact. A very good copy. This cookbook had several printings but first printing copies are uncommon. One page Introduction by Beth Henley, winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Three page essay titled A NOTE ABOUT NEW STAGE by Eudora Welty, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Literature as well as many other literary awards and honors. Features sections on beverages, appetizers, salads, soups, breads, vegetables, eggs, cheese, seafood, poultry, meats, pasta, Mexican dishes, desserts, and accompaniments as well as a buying guide and bar stocking advice for a party of fifty guests. Welty served as a board member for the New Stage Theatre for many years and a comic opera based on her novel THE PONDER HEART premiered at the Jackson, Mississippi playhouse in 1982. Welty's lighthearted essay reviews the history and personal reminiscences of the New Stage Theatre and its predecessor known as the Little Theatre. Bibliographer Noel Polk lists Welty's contribution as among her significant short non-fiction works - cited as #C74 in Polk's EUDORA WELTY; A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HER WORK. {Gastronomy-Shelf#2}.…