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A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House

by Jessie Conrad

Other authors: Joseph Conrad (Preface)

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275. 1st British ed. Famous preface by her husband by Joseph Conrad. 'Simple Cooking. Precepts for a Little House' with a preface by Joseph Conrad. 1921 subsequently titled as above. Conrad’s cookery book was simultaneously printed in New York by Doubleday, Page and Company. Leonard N. Beck in his book Two Loaf Givers devotes a page to Jessie with an illustration. illustrated cloth designed by William Nicholson ( )
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100. Preface by her famous husband, Joseph Conrad, 'The cookbook is the only product of the human mind altogether above suspicion.' 1st American edition. Red & blue ribbon bookmarks bound in.
'Simple Cooking. Precepts for a Little House' with a preface by Joseph Conrad. 1921 subsequently titled as above. ( )
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Of all the books produced since the most remote ages by human talents and industry those only that treat of cooking are, from a moral point of view, above suspicion.

Preface by Joseph Conrad.
Cooking ought not to take too much of one's time.

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