The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illustrated by Sir Francis Rose. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly toned and rubbed. Beige cloth, faintly bumped at the corners, with a green ink panel and gilt lettering and designs on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a green topstain, clean internally. Featuring the infamous Brion Gysin haschich fudge receipe, the first UK edition of Toklas's best-selling and controversial recipe book with anecdotes about the likes of Picasso and Hemingway interspersed.