Venus in the Kitchen or Love's Cookery Book

Proof copy, 'For Your Personal Reading'. A hardboiled team of collaborators: collected and written, barely pseudonymously, by Norman Douglas, introduction by Graham Greene, decorations by Bruce Roberts, without the frontispiece painting by D.H.Lawrence, acknowledgements to Faith Compton Mackenzie and Sybille Bedford for their contributions and help. Meat, fish, game, sauces, desserts, drinks (the mutton cutlets with cognac are the favourite of our packing department); a collection of recipes, all with aphrodisiacal qualities; the author's last book, 'fitting', according to Graham Greene in his introduction. Barry Humphries' copy with his bookplate, a harmonious association.

Publisher: William Heinemann. First English edition.
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Printed wrappers. Crown and base of spine worn, tear along top of front cover and spine, owner signature. About very good.


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