Possible Clues:

• Perfect example of pie, cooked and selfishly dedicated
• Essence of Eastern book about Greek character
• Perfect example in beginning of early religious book
• Finest example
• Old record — one volume gives a typical example
• Record one large volume that's the finest example
• Apotheosis
• Textbook example
• Endlessly long tale and book? Model of its kind
• To me, broken pie is the essence of this