Joly e gertrude (3 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Fair. 1st Edition. Fragile soft cover. Moderate wear and darkening of covers. Front cover barely attached but holding. Title page and last page detached but present. Very rare.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. The English Arabic Cookery Book Compiled by E. Gertrude Joly First edition. Beirut, June 1950. Printed in Beirut, Lebanon by Dar Al Hayat, Al Hayat Street, Khandak el Gamik. A beautiful and exceptionally scarce bilingual cookbook, compiled by E. Gertrude Joly after 30 years of residence in the Middle East. Published in Beirut in 1950, this fascinating volume brings together a wide variety of regional and European recipes, including dishes, cakes and drinks, presented in both English and Arabic. This is an especially attractive copy of a fragile publication. The original printed wrappers are intact and show only normal shelfwear, with some wrinkling to the corners. The text is naturally browned with age, but much of the book remains exceptionally clean and unmarked. The recipe text appears complete. There is only light pencil notation, primarily in the index. The book contains 239 pages, followed by 17 pages of illustrated advertisements, with additional advertisements interspersed throughout the text. These advertisements are of unusual historical interest and include cooking equipment, linens, wine, candles, baking, importing, household appliances and even a Rolex advertisement. They provide a remarkable glimpse into the commercial and domestic life of Beirut and the Middle East in the early 1950s. There is a printing error at the bottom of page 140 and the top of page 141, where some text has been cut off, and possibly elsewhere in the book. The index and rear advertising gatherings have begun to pull slightly from the staples, but remain tucked into the binding. The paper has naturally browned with age, consistent with the paper stock used for this publication. The scarcity of this book is remarkable. Specialist bibliographic records note only 12 institutional copies traced, making surviving copies particularly desirable to collectors of Arabic books, Lebanese history and rare cookbooks. The work is also notable for its bilingual presentation and its combination of culinary content with contemporary Beirut advertising. A particularly handsome and desirable example of an exceptionally scarce first edition, offering far more than recipes alone. This is a fascinating primary document of culinary, domestic and commercial life in mid century Beirut and the wider Middle East. An important addition to collections of rare cookbooks, Arabic books, Lebanese history, Middle Eastern history, culinary history, bilingual books, vintage advertising, food history and rare books from the Middle East.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Original blue wraps black-titled in English and Arabic 17x24cm. Printed by Dar-Al-Hayat, Beirut, on economy paper, June 1950. 239pp parallel English and Arabic texts + (33)pp b/w illustrated adverts primarily about housekeeping, supplies, and entertaining interspersed in the text and at the end. Covers and interiors very good with closed tears, leaves browned with some small chips (not affecting content). Scarce: Worldcat and Library Hub locate 14 institutional copies (OCLC 3231076). Gertrude Joly studied and practiced cookery as a hobby. She worked at the British Syrian Training College in Beirut, then during WW2 headed training at Jerusalem Girls' College while her husband Kenneth, a shipping firm owner, worked in the Palestine Government. Drawing on 30 years in the region she aims "to supply the newcomer (often a bride coming out to live in a country whose vegetables and dishes are unknown to her but popular with her husband) something to guide her steps in the first anxious days of striving to 'feed the brute' [and] all who live in the Middle East something definite in ideas for the arranging of new and varied menus suitable to the climate" (Preface). Her recipes are arranged into soups, fish, meat, vegetable dishes with or without meat, cheese egg macaroni dishes, sauces, desserts, sandwiches, candies, jams fruits preserves and pickles, invalids' and children's dishes, and beverages. A contemporary reviewer especially appreciated her vegetable dishes with or without meat where Middle Eastern rather than Western recipes predominate: "One's mouth waters at the memory of chick peas crushed with sesame oil and lemon juice; of pine kernel sauce and of lettuce leaf scoops holding crushed wheat flavoured with parsley, mint and onion. The skill of the Eastern housewife is shown here, and these recipes should be most helpful not only to newcomers to the Middle East, but also to housewives in Britain even if present shortages necessitate modification". (References: book review, and WH Ingrams' opening remarks to Joly's lecture "The Woman of the Lebanon", both in the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, Vol XXXVIII, 1951).…