The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

by Alice B. Toklas, Sir Francis Rose

$15,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

London: Michael Joseph, 1954. A fantastic association copy of the first edition, first printing, linking together two lesbian titans of the modernist literary scene of 1920s Paris. Signed by both Alice B. Toklas and illustrator Francis Rose, inscribed by Toklas For Camilla Steinbrugge , A friend of a good friend Sylvia is a friend of Alice B. Toklas 29. XII. 55. Paris. The Sylvia mentioned here is none other than Sylvia

• Printing: first

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