Product Description
First edition of this charming posthumous recipe collection from the significant bookseller Giuseppe Orioli, edited by Norman Douglas and with a frontispiece by D.
H.
Lawrence.
First edition.
In publisher's original cloth binding.
With clipped dust wrapper.
Illustrated throughout with decorations by Bruce Roberts.
Frontispiece by D.
H.
Lawrence, painted especially for this work.
One further photographic plate to the rear of the work.
Collated, complete.
With an introduction by Graham Greene.
Written by "Pilaff Bey", the illustrious Italian bookseller, Giuseppe Orioli, best known for privately publishing D.
H.
Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover and for his close long-term friendship with prominent British novelist and travel-book writer Norman Douglas, the editor of this work.
Published posthumously after Orioli's death in 1942, the recipes were collected over the course of twelve years and no later than 1936.
In publisher's original cloth binding.
With clipped dust wrapper.
Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing and the odd mark.
Significant chip to the front and back covers of the dust wrapper.
Light spotting discolouration and a few further small tears to edges.
Internally, firmly bound.
Very bright and clean with only light spotting, mainly contained to the first and last few pages.
Very Good
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