Now Lay Down Eat Notes by Bernard Rudofsky (8 results)

Hardcover, 191 pages. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. First Edition. Cloth bound with gilding on outer spine. Small dent on outer spine. Light wear and handling wear to boards. Light foxing to text block. Foxing and age wear to front and back of dust jacket. Age wear to inner dust jacket. Chipping to top outer/inner spine of dust jacket. Small tear to back of dust jacket, lower right corner.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, the issue in oversized wrappers. Richly illustrated throughout. A clean tight unmarked copy with some rubbing and edgewear to covers. An uncommon Rudofsky title.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Soft cover book, covers are very good+ to near fine (inscription on preliminary title page); text is very good+, 191 pages with black-and-white illustrations throughout; very light wave at bottom of pages - all text and illustrations fine and clear.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. First edition. This book is the catalogue for an art exhibit of the same name in 1980 at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York. Cover and spine are tanned, not affecting legibility. Binding glue exposed between inside front cover and half-title page, but front cover remains attached to spine and binding itself is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. ANTIQUES. Dj rubbed & a bit tender at corners. 191pp. Index. Profusely illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: gut. 1980. A Unique Treasure This book is the catalogue for an art exhibit of the same name in 1980 at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York. It's relatively small and modest--9-1/2" x 8-1/4" x 1/2". Yet it is a treasure-trove of pictures and lore that I have never found anywhere else. The name derives from the ancient custom of reclining to dine, something very familiar to biblical scholars and ancient artists, but completely lost in Medieval and Renaissance depictions of the Last Supper. Another major section is devoted to the development (and artistic representation) of bathing as a communal activity over the centuries. As a lifelong student of the history and development of Roman Catholic liturgical practices, I found this book fascinating in revealing the interplay of culture and custom in the development of baptismal and eucharistic symbolism and practice. Would I pay a premium "rare-book" price for a copy of this book? Knowing what a treasure it is, probably so. I certainly would not part with my well-worn copy for any price! A reprint of this marvelous little book is badly needed! Doubleday (1980) Sprache : Englisch ISBN-10 : 0385157169 ISBN-13 : 978-0385157162 Now I Lay Me Down to Eat: Notes and Footnotes on the Lost Art of Living Rudofsky, Bernard In englischer Sprache. pages.

Gr.-8°. 191 S. m. zahlreichen s/w Abb., OKart., leichte Lagerspuren. ISBN 0385157169.

Rudofsky's commentary on the instability of the ideas that shape our way of life, through the analysis of our eating, sleeping, sitting, cleansing, and bathing. Though not a catalog, published to coincide with Rudofsky's exhibit of the same name at the Cooper-Hewitt. First paperback edition, published in the same size and format as the hardback. 24 cm; 191 pp.; illustrated. One leaf in prelims. dog-eared; else a very good copy in lightly-soiled wrappers.