Title: Chinese Recipes: Letters from Alice Moore to Ethel Moore Rook Author: Moore, Alice Place: New York Publisher: Doubleday Date: 1923 Description: 113 pp. With a Preface by Rook and cover design by Royal Rook. Original decorative blue and yellow cloth binding, dust jacket. First Edition. The seventh English-language Chinese Cook Book published in America, according to the Library of Congress catalogue. Contains more than 60 recipes sent by Moore from China to her cousin on Long Island, accompanied by related anecdotes of her life in the Chinese capital. Moore was a school-teacher and nurse from Maine who taught English at the Peking American School, eventually becoming the school Principal. During World War II, she was interned by the Japanese. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket darkened, chipping, small tears (one repaired with tape on verso) and creasing at edges, some rubbing, small spots of soiling; lightly rubbed and darkened boards, rubbed spine ends; very good volume in good jacket. Item number: 232923
Title: Chinese Recipes: Letters from Alice Moore to Ethel Moore Rook Author: Moore, Alice Place: New York Publisher: Doubleday Date: 1923 Description: 113 pp. With a Preface by Rook and cover design by Royal Rook. Original decorative blue and yellow cloth binding, dust jacket. First Edition. The seventh English-language Chinese Cook Book published in America, according to the Library of Congress catalogue. Contains more than 60 recipes sent by Moore from China to her cousin on Long Island, accompanied by related anecdotes of her life in the Chinese capital. Moore was a school-teacher and nurse from Maine who taught English at the Peking American School, eventually becoming the school Principal. During World War II, she was interned by the Japanese. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket darkened, chipping, small tears (one repaired with tape on verso) and creasing at edges, some rubbing, small spots of soiling; lightly rubbed and darkened boards, rubbed spine ends; very good volume in good jacket. Item number: 232923
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