Verta Mae (13 results)

paperback. Condition: Used - Acceptable. The book is slightly warped, there is some staining on the edges. Still a very usable copy.

Softcover. Condition: Good+. Clean pages and sound with some average cover wear. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 190 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 156 Pp. Re Cloth, Spine Lettered In Black. First Edition Stated. Near Fine, No Marks. Dust Jacket Price Clipped With Bookseller's $6.95 Price Label. Dust Jacket With Light Wear, A Few Tiny Tears And Losses At Edges. Per Wikipedia, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (1937 - 2016) Was An American Culinary Anthropologist, Griot, Poet, Food Writer, And Broadcaster On Public Media. Born Into A Gullah Family In The Low Country Of South Carolina, She Moved With Them As A Child To Philadelphia During The Great Migration. Later She Lived In Paris Before Settling In New York City. She Was Active In The Black Arts Movement And Performed On Broadway. Her Travels Informed Her Cooking And Appreciation Of Food As Culture. She Was Known For Her Cookbook-Memoir, Vibration Cooking: Or, The Travel Notes Of A Geechee Girl (1970), And Published Numerous Essays And Articles. She Produced Two Award-Winning Documentaries And Was A Commentator For Years On Npr, Serving As A Contributor To Its Now Series. Grosvenor Also Appeared In Several Films, Including Personal Problems (1980), An Independent Film By Bill Gunn, Daughters Of The Dust (1992), About A Gullah Family In 1902 During A Time Of Transition On The Sea Islands, And Beloved (1998), Based On Toni Morrison's 1987 Novel Of The Same Name. She Was In A National Geographic Documentary About The Gullah People. Early Life And Education.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1972 Doubleday first edition in price intact jacket. Tight and unmarked but edges and endpapers shows light fox small hole to jacket on spine. E47 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket placed in mylar for preservation. Light foxing to text block. Clipping visible to top corner of front free end page. Binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A USED BOOK STILL IN GOOD CONDITION. LITTLE WEARS AND TEARS ON DUST JACKET CORNER AND EDGE. FORMER LIBRARY BOOK WITH LIMITED LIBRARY MARK. PAGES ARE STILL CLEAN AND BINDING STILL TIGHT. LITTLE YELLOWING PAPER BECAUSE OF AGE. LITTLE STAIN DOT ON SOME PAGES BUT NOT AFFECT TEXT. TOTAL 156 PAGES.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Ellsworth Ausby (illustrator). First Edition. Stated first edition. Subtitled 'A Domestic Rap, this work was a source for the hit film 'The Help' starring Viola Davis, and was authored by a pioneering Black culinary anthropologist. Scarce due to demand. A fine, clean and unmarked copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The 1972 stated 1st edition of this uncommon "domestic rap" on the role of "black people"- housekeeping though the years. Solid and VG+ (very light staining along the bottom-edges) in a bright, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the spine ends and the tips, and very mild soiling and creasing to the panel edges. Octavo, 156 pgs. Written through the lens of an empowered, Sixties sensibility, includes chapter headings such as "Freedom is better than slavery and i know cause i done seed both sides", "Massas and lawn Moors", "Nobody knows the master better than the servant", "House niggers ain't shit", "The Servants Done Riz!", "Mammy, Aunt Jemima & Uncle Ben, the Gold Dust twins and the rest of the family", etc.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Red cloth cover with blk spine; first endsheet is wavy because of the Bookplate; DJ is not; seems unread; No marks or writing, clean; tight binding; Author's Inscription on fep; as told through the voice of a Mammie, the life and perspectie of a domestic is told with fascinating vignettes from the past and contemporary scene; ; 156 pages; Signed by Author Very Good lettering price clipped, toned on edges tight binding;

Hardcover. Condition: Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Slate cloth, wear and chipping with some loss and browning at edges of unclipped jacket, front hinge cracked in the gutter but still sound and fine internally.; signed on the front endpaper by Verta Mae "Peace and Power, Verta Mae" and on pastedown by previous owner. 190pp A vital work on Gullah cuisine and culture (that also includes much of interest in Verta Mae's unique Gullah/Philadelphia/Paris/NY food life) - the uniquely rich low country South Carolina and Georgia culture more closely related to West Indian than African-American - it evolved from the remoteness of the mostly West African slave population. One of the first books to introduce Americans to Gullah-Geechee food, it was enormously influential and continues to ripple through Southern cuisine as it is (belatedly) embraced. Frogs, codfish with green sauce, escaviach Jamaica style, Frank Smart's cold hot smoked tongue, gator tails, smothered rabbit, hoe cake, etc. Unusual signed. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Signed by Author. Inventory No: CAT000960.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 153pp. Faint stain on front board, near fine in price-clipped and slightly soiled near fine dust jacket. Freeform essays and reflections about Black domestic servants by the author of *Vibration Cooking, or The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl*. Inscribed by the author to a noted African-American book collector: "to Dan Johnson - Keep the Faith - Verta Mae. NYC. 1974." Considering it was issued by a mainstream publisher, a surprisingly uncommon title.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First printing. First edition of this classic of culinary Americana: part-narrative, part-cookbook memoir of the experiences of a Gullah Geechee woman, prescient in style and content. The LA TIMES notes that VIBRATION COOKING "illuminates one Black woman's experience like no work of literature before or since." The flow between recipe and prose would not be out of place on a cooking blog of today; Mae's reflections on the origins of her ingredients and commentary on US culture give context to her traditional and global dishes. "There is no reference to black people's contribution to the culinary arts. White folks act like they invented food," she observes in the first chapter, but "food is food. Everybody eats!" Mae herself has a wide and varied career - from journalism and broadcasting to acting and activism - and was a prominent force in the Black Arts Movement. Now recognized a landmark cookbook, VIBRATION COOKING has been reprinted numerous times. However, the first edition is increasingly scarce. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth binding with silver lettering to spine. Original color pictorial dust jacket, unclipped ($4.95), designed by Sydney Butchkes. Red endpapers. 190 pages, including index. Jacket spine mildly sunned, with a slightly creased tear on the rear panel, touches of edgewear. Book trace shelfwear. Else clean and sound. Near fine in very good plus jacket.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First printing. Inscribed first edition of this classic of culinary Americana: part-narrative, part-cookbook memoir of the experiences of a Gullah Geechee woman, prescient in style and content. The LA TIMES notes that VIBRATION COOKING "illuminates one Black woman's experience like no work of literature before or since." The flow between recipe and prose would not be out of place on a cooking blog of today; Mae's reflections on the origins of her ingredients and commentary on US culture give context to her traditional and global dishes. "There is no reference to black people's contribution to the culinary arts. White folks act like they invented food," she observes in the first chapter, but "food is food. Everybody eats!" Mae herself has a wide and varied career - from journalism and broadcasting to acting and activism - and was a prominent force in the Black Arts Movement. Now recognized a landmark cookbook, VIBRATION COOKING has been reprinted numerous times. However, the first edition is increasingly scarce, and decidedly so signed by Mae. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth binding with silver lettering to spine. Original color pictorial dust jacket, unclipped ($4.95), designed by Sydney Butchkes. Red endpapers. 190 pages, including index. Inscribed in year of publication by Mae on front free endpaper: "May 11, 1970 / for Miss Wallace, / With special / thanks for taking / care of Kali [Mae's daighter] / Right on, / Verta Mae." Jacket spine mildly sunned. Small closed tear at rear fold. Minor rubbing and toning overall. Else clean and sound. Near fine in a very good plus jacket. Signed.