The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
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2 200 SEK
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Beskrivning
THE ALICE B. TOKLAS COOK BOOK. TOKLAS, ALICE BABETTE. The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. Illustrations by Sir Francis Rose. London, Michael Joseph, 1954.
8vo. 234 x 160 mm. XII, 288 pp. Publisher´s cloth (no dust-wrapper). Exlibris of Rothstein on front board inside.
First edition, precding the American with two days.
Gertrude Stein´s companion Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) was reluctant to publish an autobiography after Stein had done so in her name in 1933 (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas). The contents of theCook Book is almost as much memoirs as recipes, the most famous being supplied her by her friend Brion Gysin, for cannabis fudge.
Provenance: Clas Ifvarsson (1941-2012), Swedish business manager and politician. His impressive book collection was mainly dedicated to 17th-18th century Swedish literature, but his cultural interests were broad, which his large library bore witness to.
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Auktionsnummer:
868662
Datum:
2021-01-27