The phrase "the preface of" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to the introductory part of a text, such as a book, poem, or article. For example, "In the preface of his novel, the author explains his motivation for writing it."
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.
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".
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 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".
"In the United States at this time, liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition," Lionel Trilling observed in 1950, in the preface of his book "The Liberal Imagination".
In the preface of this book he endorses the view of an Israeli journalist, Amira Hass, that the proper vocation of the reporter is to "monitor the centres of power".
The preface of the "Encyclopedia of Black Folklore and Humor" tells a story about the first black captives arriving in the New World and one slave "muttering angrily to himself".
