Famous Recipes by Famous People

by Cerwin, Herbert

$40 · Offered by Biblio · No longer available

First edition · In dust jacket

San Francisco: Lane Publishing, 1940. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Very clean hardcover book in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean ivory cloth boards with gold chef and fork decoration,gold lettering on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean decorated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated by Sinclair Ross. Introduction by Bruno Lessing. 62 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped (1.00 on front inside flap), has long diagonal closed tear on rear panel which was repaired y some previous soul with transparent tape. Now looking good enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Recipe contributors include John Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Christopher Morley, and more.including some o the leading chefs of the world from Oscar at the Waldorf to the chef of the Hongkong Hotel in China..

• Publisher: Lane Publishing
• Year: 1940
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: Hardcover

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