[Rarebooks] FS: Alice B. Toklas Cookbook INSCRIBED to Eleanor Roosevelt

[Charles Agvent]

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[COOKERY] [ROOSEVELT, Eleanor] TOKLAS, Alice B. AROMAS AND FLAVORS OF 
PAST AND PRESENT Inscribed to Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Harper & 
Brothers Publishers, (1958). First Edition. Early but not first 
printing. Introduction and comments by Poppy Cannon. INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED by the author on a piece of Toklas's 5, rue Christine stationery: 
"For Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt/En souvenir of a memorable meeting in 
1934./With appreciation and cordially/Alice Toklas/November 1958." Below 
this is an inscription by Poppy Cannon in green ink: "and with the 
deepest and/warmest admiration/from/Poppy/Christmas 1958." The paper, 
now loose, was once tipped to the top of the front endpaper and has a 
corresponding glue stain. It is likely that Toklas wanted to present a 
copy to Roosevelt and signed the stationery which she then sent to 
Cannon or her publisher who then tipped it into this copy to give to 
Roosevelt. With Eleanor Roosevelt's bookplate on the front pastedown and 
a small Eleanor Roosevelt estate sticker numbered 841 above it. Glue 
stain to the top of the stationery as well as to the top of the endpaper 
and less so to the facing pastedown. Small dampstain to the heel of the 
spine which has "841 ER" written in ink as does the spine of the 
dustwrapper which is dampstained, wrinkled, and soiled. Very Good in a 
Good dustwrapper. Extraordinary copy.

The memorable meeting Toklas mentions was the invitation extended by 
Roosevelt to her and Gertrude Stein to have tea at the White House. 
Toklas provided the meals when Gertrude would hold court in their Paris 
residence to the likes of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. James Beard 
called her one of the "really great cooks of all time." (#017829)        
$7,500.00

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