Red cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A nice clean original book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG.

Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam.

                    One of Jack’s more interesting books

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition hardcover octavo of 8 5/ 8 inches with a light red cloth cover and black boxed gilt printing on the spine. Otherwise bright and still crisp and new looking. Over 200 recipes from two fine gourmet cooks, Alice B. Toklas and her companion, Gertrude Stein. Witty and erudite. reflecting their immersion in the larger community of other artists and writers living in Paris at the time. Introduction and commentary by Poppy Cannon. 219 pp.