"preface of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to introduce a statement or idea that has a bearing on the main topic of a document, conversation, or other discourse. For example, "In the preface of this book, the author discusses why he chose this particular topic to explore."
The preface of the Kokinshū lists judgments on the principal poets of the collection.
The preface of this book is one of the most compelling pieces he wrote.
The Special One writes in the "pretentious preface" of the book, "Whatever, Didier will always be in my heart".
Jessica Francis Kane begins her novel with the preface of The 9/11 Commission Report: "We want to note what we have done, and not done".
As a preface of sorts Lionheart opened the program with music for the Feast of the Annunciation, March 25 (exactly nine months before Christmas).
However, to quote from the preface of Seife's book: "On June 25 , 2001 Time magazine devoted its cover to the end of the universe.
His remarks, come from the preface of "Stella" (Ipso Facto, 2001, $50), a new coffee-table book about the collaboration between Mr. Fath and his Swedish-born muse.
The New Yorker, November 16, 1940 P. 11 The other day someone sent us a preface of a book published in Shanghai, called "Correctly English in Hundred Days".
The neglect of what was to have been his chef d'oeuvre finally embittered Frege, who had complained, in the preface, of the apparent ignorance of his work on the part of writers working in allied fields.
"My dear friends, today I am reaching out to you with the certainty that I can help you put an end to the inevitability of weight problems in North America," he wrote in the preface of the new edition.
Mr. Prahalad had established a reputation as a formidable business strategist when he started his work on poverty in 1995, according to the preface of "Bottom of the Pyramid".
