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Sale 6247
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| Philadelphia
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Estimate$800 – $1,200
[Conrad, Joseph] Conrad Jessie
Simple Cooking Precepts for a Little House
No place, no date (privately printed, 1921). First edition, #74/100 copies signed and numbered by Conrad on front wrapper. 8vo. Unpaginated (8 pp.). Printed limp self-wrappers, light foxing to front and rear wrapper; in quarter blue morocco slip case and chemise. Ehrsam 2334
A very scarce and limited separate printing of Joseph Conrad's preface to his wife Jessie Conrad's cookery book Simple Cooking Precepts for a Little House, one of only 100 copies privately published and signed and numbered by him. His wife's book would go on to be published by Heinemann in 1923.
Private collection, Philadelphia.
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