April 17, 2024
1982 The Leftovers Cookbook w/ ORIGINAL PETER KAHN INK ILLUSTRATION FROM BOOK
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H. Peter Kahn SIGNED ORIGINAL DRAWING for AND IN Signed 1982 Use It All Cookbook USE IT ALLThe Leftovers Cookbook by Jane Marsh Dieckmann Illustrations by Peter Kahn 1982 / Trumansburg, New York: The Crossing Press Hardbound brown leatherette with gilt title on spine No dustjacket (perhaps as issued) 369 pages / indexed / illustrated The scarce hardcover first edition signed by illustrator H. Peter Kahn on title page. Book is accompanied by his original ink illustration of "Broccoli" for page 52, inscribed by him in pencil: "To Alice (remember the Taj story) July 89 - Peter Kahn" A uniquely special copy of this cookbook from a much-beloved member of the New York State art world. H. Peter Kahn (1921-1997) is fondly remembered by generations of Cornell students and Ithacans as a man whose life was dedicated to art, especially the arts of fine printing and the handmade book. A prolific typographer, illustrator and book designer as well as a painter, the German-born artist was a member of the Cornell community for forty years. Kahn came to Cornell in 1958 as a Professor of Art and according to a profile of him in the Cornell Alumni News, his house was "for ten years a prominent off-campus hangout for a wonderful assortment of gifted and zany students..." Among these was Richard Fariña -- in fact Kahn was the inspiration for the character
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