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Rolled sheet in cloth bag, 6 1/2" x 34". Signed. Intentionally spotted by the artist.

Texts in English and Spanish. Collection of sentences that build off the previous. A single sentence appears on each page and is written first in Spanish and then in English below it.

This album of photographs by Czech photographer, filmmaker, and ethnographer Karel Plicka offers a portrait of the people of Czechoslovakia in twenty pictures. The impulse to document a culture through photographs is related to other anthropological…

Elizabeth Driver points out that this book was one of two major vegetable company cookbooks to come out of Manitoba in the pre-1950 period; the other was produced by the A.E. McKenzie Co. (Culinary 923). The author of the McFayden book, Katharine…

Codex. 13 x 13 x 6 cm.
N 7433.4 P252 A6 M655 1990

Altered Book. 30 x 30 cm.
N 7433.4 P74 A6 S57 2006

A recurring theme in wartime community cookbooks is the kitchen as home front. An ad for Eaton’s specifically celebrates “Soldiers of the Kitchen Front,” the women whose knowledge of nutrition and food preparation would help them nourish their…

Life in the Antarctic: Photographs by the Scottish Antarctic Expedition includes a prefatory note explaining that “the illustrations in this little book are all reproductions of genuine photographs from life, taken by the Leader and Staff of the…