The Alice B Toklas Cook Book

Alice B. Toklas - The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book; illustrations by Sir Francis Rose - London, Michael Joseph, 1954 - First Edition - Hardcover - 288pp - 23x15cm Condition Good: Cover worn and faded. Throughout the book some signs of use: this book really has been used but all pages are clean, no names or writing, binding good. Alice Babette… Read more about this item

This legendary cookbook was first published in 1954. It includes stories and recipes collected over 25 years, ranging from bourgeois excess to wartime austerity. An entertaining culinary companion. This is the 1997 reprint of the 1995 edition published by Wakefield Press. There is some wear to the cover and slight tanning to page edges. Old price sticker on back cover.Carefully packaged for… Read more about this item

London, Michael Joseph, 1954. 1st Edition, 288 pages. Very good if slightly soiled beige cloth boards. No dust jacket. Internally very good with no markings or inscriptions. Illustrations by Sir Francis Rose. Still a scarce and sought after title. The first English edition is noteworthy for containing the recipe for Hashish Fudge, which was removed from the US 1st… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's coarse beige cloth with gilt titles blocked in green on the spine. Near Fine with dulling to gilt, toning to pages, erased previous owner name to front free endpaper and previous owner gift inscription to half-title page. In a Near Fine unclipped… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First British Ed. Cloth. Very good/Good. Sir Francis Rose. Tan cloth, spine has gilt illustrations and title in green box. Light stand to top page edge. Decorative dust jacket has stains and rips and tears. Illustrated endpapers, 287 pp. The is the true First Edition with the recipe for haschich fudge (p.259), which was… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First American edition, first printing with a handwritten inscription by Alice B. Toklas of her legendary "Haschich Fudge" recipe written across one and a quarter blank pages at the rear of the book. Pretty rad indeed. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth boards over green spine… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Later (second?) printing. Octavo. 288pp. Illustrated by Sir Francis Rose. Some foxing on the foredge, else near fine in price-clipped very good dust jacket with a couple of modest chips. An attractive copy.

With black slip case. Book in near fine condition, introduction by Diana Souhami.

London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Sir Francis Rose. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with chips and wear. This edition features surrealist artist Brion Gysin's infamous recipe for hashish fudge, which was expurgated from the first American edition.

Paperback. Very Good.

Harper Perennial, August 2010. Paperback. Used - Very Good.

London: Michael Joseph,, 1954. The unexpurgated true first, inscribed to a Parisian abstract artist First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "For Jeanne Coppel, appreciatively, Alice B. Toklas", and signed by the illustrator on the same page with a drawing of a rose. The painter and collagist Jeanne Coppel (1896-1971) was an early practitioner… Read more about this item

HarperCollins, 1984. First edition hard cover, very good condition. No dust jacket. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Cover.

London: The Folio Society, 1993. First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. pp. 282. 8vo., measuring 6.25" x 9.25". Charming, silver balacron boards, illustrated endpapers. Lovely black-and-white illustrations throughout. Entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in near fine lightly rubbed, black slipcase. Overall, very good+, to, near fine.

Folio Society,. Hardback. 282pp. Illustrated by Natacha Ledwidge. Black and whtei in text illustrations. Introduction by Diana Souhami (biographer of Radclyffe Hall, and who has written extensively on the history of lesbians in the Modernist period). Souhami describes the cookbook as being as much a memoir fo the life shared with Getrude Stein as food writing.… Read more about this item

Harper Perennial, 2010-08-10. Illustrated. paperback. Used:Good.

New York: Harper and Row, 1984. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Nice and tight, first edition thus of thus of this 1984 edition. Two inch crease to front jacket flap.

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, May 2021. Paper Back. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.