The Chinese cook book

by Shiu Wong Chan

$450 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1917 . First edition of the first Chinese cookbook written in English by a Chinese author; small 8vo, pp. xiii, 3 , 201, 1 ; 2 half-tone plates and a few illustrations in the text; original pictorial red cloth a bit faded, pp. 193-94 looks to have been reinserted, but still a good, sound, and clean copy. In fact, the third Chinese cookbook published in English, preceded by Chinese Cookery in the Home kitchen 1911

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