NMLP P-045537 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

Alice B. Toklas · Michael Joseph, London (true first); Harper & Brothers, New York (US, same year) · 1954

The London Michael Joseph edition precedes the New York Harper & Brothers edition (reported at about two days earlier) and is also the fuller text, since Harper dropped the hashish-fudge recipe — so the UK issue is the collected first on both grounds. The recipe was not restored to an American edition until the early 1960s.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-045537 for "The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book" by Alice B. Toklas (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045537, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).