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19356045841935. 8" x 11"; 4 pages printed on heavy stock with tipped-on pictorial silver foil label on the front cover. Very good few creases. 1935. Signed by: Dorothy Parker; Edward G. Robinson and his wife Gladys Lloyd Robinson; James Cagney; Morgan McLeod; Pat O'Brien; Jeanne Ackerley; Rose Bissonetto; Frank Albertson; And others. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books
1922867171922. HOTEL DROUOT. COLLECTION CH. HAVILAND. Paris: 1922. A series of auction catalogs of the collections of Japanese Art ceramics illustration and illustrated books including descriptions for the items as well as a total of 64 plates. The volumes comprise all Haviland auctions pertaining to Japanese Prints & books in a total of seven volumes. All catalogs are bound in paper covers some with slight soiling or tears all with spine reapairs in binder's tape. Interiors and plates bright and clean. First Sale November 27th-29th 1922: 20 plates 98p. Tenth Sale 2nd part June 4th-6th 1923: 16 plates 107p. Fourteenth Sale Febuary 4th & 7th 1924: 8 plates 88p. Fifteenth Sale October 20th-23rd 1924: 6 plates 70p. Sixteenth Sale March 2nd-4th 1925: 6 plates 62p. Seventeenth Sale June 15th-17th 1925: 4 plates 53p. Eighteenth Sale June 2nd-4th 1927: 4 plates 90p. An extensive group of volumes for reference research or historical interest Good condition. unknown books
19097574Minneapolis Minn: New Hotel Dyckman 1909. Duodecimo-sized booklet single-stapled in wrappers 11 x 6.5 cm. 44 pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional drink manual promoting Minneapolis' very fine Dyckman Hotel. One hundred-one recipes for cocktails are listed including some lesser-known gems: American Beauty Careless Love Bijou Charlie Horse Opalescent and the Electric Eel. Pages a bit age-toned and staples somewhat oxidized; a few small dog ears. In publisher's black wrappers titled in silver. Very good. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; not in Noling. New Hotel Dyckman unknown books
1920390Fifth Avenue Shopping District Map <i>circa</i>1920. Hotel Seville<i>. The Fine Art of Good Service. </i>John F. Garrety Manager. A promotional brochure 14 cm x 9 cm illustrated in color with a fold-out color map 27 cm x 20 cm of the "Fifth Avenue Shopping District" from Twenty-Sixth Street up to Forty-Second Street. A northern extension of Manhattan's famous "Ladies' Mile" of the Gilded Age up Fifth Avenue above Twenty-Third Street to Herald Square this early twentieth century area was called the "Fifth Avenue Shopping District." With street numbers on Broadway and Fifth Avenue printed in red; and subway stations stores churches insurance companies banks as well as the original Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and Thirty-Ninth Street all labeled this booklet is believed to be have been printed for the Hotel Seville about 1920. It is not later than 1924 when Saks & Company moved to Fifth Avenue and Forty-Ninth Street and became Saks Fifth Avenue. On the recto of the street map is a floor plan of the hotel with prices showing the footprint of each room. The back cover has a coat of arms with the motto: <i>Virtus Laudem Imperat</i>. Paper covers 12 pages. Fine almost as new. Hotel Seville books
19195838Chicago: Published by The Hotel Monthly Press John Willy Inc 1919. Large octavo 26 x 17.5 cm. iv 430 iv pages. Photographic portrait of the author in chef's whites and smoking cap frontispiece. Publisher's advertisements. Indexes. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A handsome reminting of selected material originally presented in the author's Hotel St. Francis Book of Recipes and Model Menus: L'Art culinaire of 1910 an important and influential professional cookbook that marked San Francisco's emergence as a world culinary center; includes too a sampling of menu files for corporate banquets and luncheons catered by the kitchen staff of St. Francis between 1915 and 1919 that is after the publication of L'Art culinaire. Composed as a series of menus ordered according to the calendar year at the head of each page followed beneath by recipes - some detailed some perfunctory - for selected items from the menus. The scope may be reasonably described as considerable. That the general index lists two hundred named recipes alone for preparing eggs conveys some idea of Hirtzler's manifestly irrepressible capacity for invention. ~ It is useful to remember that a century and more ago many of the compilers of local cookery books could claim intellectual ownership of what they published only by stretching the notion of authorship beyond all recognition. Maids and cooks were the relevant repositories of knowledge and disseminators of practice. And when the privileged class traveled - sometimes staying in one place for weeks months or seasons - hospitality service was for all intents and purposes an elaboration of home. Staff including those supervising the great hotel and resort dining rooms of the age were servants. Chefs may have been well regarded even fêted but today it is easy to forget that in yesterday's world the road to celebrity was paved by servitude. ~ But their cookbooks were the expression of their own authorial voices. In this they must be counted as unrepresentative of early cookbook publishing broadly however much their intricate arrangements garner attention. They may nonetheless be representative of place revelatory of both the preferences of a community and of the extensive apparatus built to satisfy it. ~ The bibliographer Dan Strehl identified the Alsatian Victor Hirtzler 1874-1931 some time ago in One Hundred Books on California Food & Wine Los Angeles: The Book Collectors 1990 page 21. as "one of the earliest celebrity chefs." Among other means of attracting restaurant clientele "Hirtzler presented seasonal menus demonstrating the highly sophisticated hotel dining of the time" with menus heavily influenced by the haute cuisine of European royal courts. After a sidereal career that included posts at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and the royal Belém Palace in Lisbon he had arrived at the St. Francis on Union Square in 1904 endured the catastrophes of 1906 and remained after the city's rebuilding until 1925 when he retired to Strasbourg. A fuller account is available in David Shields's The Culinarians Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2017 pages 526-529. Thus it would not be far off the mark to describe the Hotel Monthly Press edition published in Chicago as a sort of monument or Gesamtausgabe honoring the career and achievement of an admired artist. ~ Near fine in publisher's green boards lettered and bordered in gilt. OCLC locates ninety copies; Bitting page 231; Brown 843; Cagle 363; not in Stoner. Published by The Hotel Monthly Press, John Willy, Inc hardcover books
19106753San Francisco: Putney Haight Telegraph Press; Printed and Bound by the Hicks-Judd Company 1910. Octavo 24 x 16 cm. 31 67-307 pages. Advertisements. Illustration of the Hotel on page 3. Portrait of the author in chef's whites and smoking cap on page 6. ~ FIRST EDITION stated subscription issue. One of the more important and influential early California professional cookbooks marking San Francisco's emergence as a world culinary center. Divided between a menu section Part 1 with two hundred menus and "Extraordinary and Secret Compositions in Culinary Art" Part 2 with more than two thousand recipes. A dose of hyperbole can be assumed regarding the claim to secrecy as at least some of the recipes had appeared in the author's column in The Evening Post whose collaboration is acknowledged on page 18. A sampling: Austrian Soup Bread Berliner Pfannkuchen English Crumpets Velvet Soup Cream of Chicory Soup Green Walnut Confit Bar le Duc Crème au Kirsch Coup St. Jacques Chiffonade Salad Salad Eugenie Okra and Sweet Peppers mistakenly printed twice Tripe à la mode Caen Baron of Lamb Squab Michels Quail Forestiere Fondue Savarin Pineapple Omelette Bohemian Eggs String Beans with Raisins Viennese Carrots Raspberry Souffle Cream Puffs St. Francis. ~ The bibliographer Dan Strehl identified the Alsatian Victor Hirtzler 1874-1931 some time ago in One Hundred Books on California Food and Wine Los Angeles: The Book Collectors 1990 page 21. as "one of the earliest celebrity chefs." Among other means of attracting restaurant clientele "Hirtzler presented seasonal menus demonstrating the highly sophisticated hotel dining of the time" with menus heavily influenced by the haute cuisine of European royal courts. After a sidereal career that included posts at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and the royal Belém Palace in Lisbon he had arrived at the St. Francis on Union Square in 1904 and thus endured the catastrophes of 1906 and remained after the rebuilding until 1925 when he retired to Strasbourg. A fuller account is available in David Shields's The Culinarians Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2017 pages 526-529. ~ The didactic "models" presentation of L'Art culinaire is likely intended as a counter to Escoffier's Le guide culinaire a reference text that had recently appeared in an abridged English translation in 1907. Hirtzler's subscription edition of 1910 which includes a list of the patrons who underwrote its publication has become quite scarce. Stamped "Subscription Edition" on the front cover; includes the list of patrons that according to the edition note on page 9 was reserved for subscribers; all of these copies are missing two signatures which accounts for the pagination gap. ~ In publisher's tan cloth with black lettering. Light rubbing and extremity wear to covers. The front paste-down bears an ownership inscription in red pencil "Property of Marge deYoung Portland Ore." and the free front endpaper a rubber-stamped name and address of an Oregon paperback exchange. Good. OCLC locates thirteen copies of the subscription edition; Bitting page 230; Brown 95 undated; Glozer 127; Strehl 19; Cagle 362; not in Stoner. Putney Haight, Telegraph Press; Printed and Bound by the Hicks-Judd Company hardcover books
1936144619New York: Hotel Astor 1936. Original lunch menu from the Times Square Hotel Astor in New York City dated Wednesday October 7 1936.<br/><br/>The successor to the Astor family's Waldorf-Astoria hotel an essential element of Times Square's growth into an entertainment location and a widely-known bar for pickups the Hotel Astor notably encouraged gay men to frequent the bar for pickups as well. The hotel was in operation from 1904 through 1967 featuring many well known musicians including Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra with big band leader Vincent Lopez and his orchestra advertised on this menu. <br/><br/>The menu dates from a year after the hotel's first renovation and features an extensive partially French inspired cuisine including a Philadelphia Pepper Pot broiled mackerel turkey wings and a tomato cheese and asparagus cold salad as the daily specials. The hotel's location is now occupied by a 54-story office tower. <br/><br/>Single fold three-color menu 9 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with light soil. Hotel Astor unknown books
1927SGG213B-17Del Monte CA:: Del Monte Properties Company circa 1927. Paperback. Very Good. William H. Bull 1861-1940. Stapled Folding Brochure. 9 x 4 inches closed. Two sheets of paper stapled together at the center fold 24 panels opens at the center-fold to 24 x 9 inches. Illustrated with water-colors and black-and-white photographs decorative initials the center-fold consists on 1 large color map of the Monterey Peninsula drawn by W. H. Bull; text clean unmarked. Folding brochure of self-wraps with colored drawings; binding square and tight rubbed especially at the folds. Laid in is an invoice from the Hotel del Monte rubber stamped "Paid" and dated January 31 1927 total charge is for $30.00 including room and board charge of $6.00 per night. Very Good. Del Monte now incorporated into the City of Monterey was a resort established by Charles Crocker one of California's Big Four railroad barons. The grounds of the luxury resort hotel were created through the Southern Pacific Railroad's property division Pacific Improvement Company which completed the first hotel on the property in 1880. The Hotel Del Monte included the hotel parkland polo grounds and a golf course as well as the seventeen-mile drive from the hotel to Pebble Beach which was developed as another portion of the resort. This brochure includes a color map illustrated by William H. Bull 1861-1940 a prolific and successful commercial artist. The Southern Pacific Company hired Bull as their first commercial artist and by 1915 he also produced work regularly for Sunset Magazine. He lived in San Mateo and produced illustrations for chamber of commerce publications. REFERENCE: Kurutz and Kurutz California Calls You pp. 98 164-165. Del Monte Properties Company, paperback books
1928382<p><i>Visitors Map and Hotel Directory of New York. Special Edition Prepared for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Affiliated Societies December 27 1928 to January 2 1929. </i>New York: Hotel Association of New York City 70 cm x 42.5 cm. On the verso of the large map of New York City are two smaller maps showing the "Principal Hotel District" with the various hotels marked. The hotel rates per day are also published on the back as well as a small map of the tri-state area: New York-New Jersey-Connecticut. The large map shows points of interest as well as all transportation routes including the names of the steamship and commercial shipping lines associated with each pier. Creasing from folds on the large map noted the condition is good.</p> New York Hotel Association books
19405824San Francisco Calif: Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte 1940. Large octavo 62 pages. Index. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and pale brown. Second edition originally published under the slightly different title Famous Recipes of Famous People and issued by the Hotel del Monte without Sunset Magazine in 1936. A compilation of celebrity recipes with the recipes attributed to the famous including: Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck Walt Disney J. Edgar Hoover Rube Goldberg and many others. Also includes a section of recipes of well-known chefs of the day with a bias toward California Hotels and the west in general as well as a short section of recipes from the Hotel Del Monte. The playful illustrations by Sinclair Ross alternately reference Hollywood and the frontier West. Endpapers reproduce the autographs of many of the celebrities featured in the book. Publisher's gilt-decorated cream-colored boards near fine. In clean and bright yellow dust jacket printed in blue and orange but with several good-sized chips to the front and rear panels. Dust jacket is good only. Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte hardcover books
1915221954Los Angeles Hotel Leighton ca. 1915. 1915. Folio 8 panel sheet. 4 large gravure illustrations 3 smaller views map. Fine fresh. 8 pages. The Hotel Leighton was located at 2127 W. 6th Street. The manager was A.R. Jauiith. The booklet includes views from the hotel of West Lake Park and it's own tennis courts. Soft cover. Los Angeles, Hotel Leighton [ca. 1915]. paperback books
191047219Portland 1910. 1st Printing. White card stock wrappers embossed upper wrappers with gilt textured white leaves with categorical tabs printed in red and black held together by a red cord tie and stapled now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Soiling wrappers upper wrapper with possible water damage tie a bit frayed and sunned some red and black ink markings - adjusting and adding menu items light soiling to some leaves as well as some faint age toning to edges. Overall a nice bright copy. 20 pp. unnumbered. 10-2/8" x 7" <br/><br/>"Railroad magnate Henry Villard financed the Portland Hotel and construction began in 1882 but his finances collapsed—in part because of the Panic of 1884—and the construction stopped for five years. With only the foundation completed the site became known as "Villard's Ruins" and the bodies of two murder victims were found there before construction resumed. George B. Markle Jr. began a campaign to raise local money to complete the hotel. He generated enough interest and subscribers to his plan among them Henry W. Corbett Henry Failing Simeon Reed and William S. Ladd to get construction started again. Later investors included labor leader Ed Boyce. The Queen Anne Châteauesque hotel finally opened in 1890 and had eight floors and 326 bedrooms.It had cost well over a million dollars and eight years to complete." wiki The hotel closed in 1951 and all the furniture was sold at auction. unknown books
1933173950Paris: Galerie Georges Petit 1933. Softcover. Fair Wear to spine; Wraps loose and discolored due to age with some light foxing; General wear to page edges; Pages clean. Green wraps with black lettering; unpaginated numerous bw plates. Text in French; From the auction held October 27-28 1933; Lists 158 works. Galerie Georges Petit paperback books
1915221947Los Angeles Baltimore Hotel ca. 1915. 1915. Small 8vo. 3 illustrations. Printed entirely in red. 4 pages. Fine fresh. Advertises the hotel at 5th near Main as being "Absolutely Fireproof." Rooms were $1.00 and up. They offered free "auto busses" to meet all trains. Managers were E.H. Hess and W.J. Colopy. Soft cover. Los Angeles, Baltimore Hotel [ca. 1915]. paperback books
19462561Boston: The Somerset Hotel 1946. Cards. Green illustrated cards with yellow string tassel. Near fine. Unpaginated 4 pages. 30.5 x 21.5 Dinner dancing and music at this 1940's Boston social event hosted by the who's who of Boston's upper class - including Miss Katherine Winthrop a top-ranked American tennis player. Full page listing the Girls' Clubs of Boston's Board of Directors Dinner Dance Committee and office holders - all filled out by the wives of privileged class. Music by Ranny Weeks and his Orchestra. Menu highlights a choice of Lobster Newburg or broiled tenderloin. Last page describes the Island of Bali highlights religious customs government and various facts or most likely fiction. Clean crisp copy. <br /> The Somerset Hotel books
1996182431996. Softcover. VG- some mild wear to extremities. Black wraps. 172 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. Text in French Paris of Clovis to Dagobert. Catalogue lists annotates and illustrates mostly in color 170 works. An oversize book the plates are lovely. paperback books
1901138343Paris: Hotel Drouot 1901. Softbound. Binding copy binding separated in two places. Cover very toned edges chipped pages much less toned some chipping along lower edges. Cream wraps 23 pp. plus 11 leaves with single engraved plates and tissue protectors. In French. Contains 21 lots of largely 19th century French artists: Cezanne Guillaumin Lepine Pissarro Renoir Sisley and Degas. Quite scarce. Hotel Drouot paperback books
192847417San Francisco 1928. 1st Printing. Off white card stock loose leaf printed in gold and navy blue. A VG copy. Edges slightly rubbed light soiling to recto. Pencil markings to entire verso as well as some scotch tape residue. Broadside. Small vignette of the hotel to head. 11" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/>A scarce Mark Hopkins menu. unknown books
1993179020Paris: Hotel George V. 1993. Hardcover. VG/VG light shelf wear two small stains on dust jacket top of dust jacket bumped interior clean and tight. Blue color-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. Black cloth binding with silver lettering. Profusely illustrated in color and B&W. 144 pp. French. Catalog for a sale which took place at Hotel George-V on Friday 18 June 1993. Hotel George V. hardcover books
193448653n.p. 1934. 1st Printing. White card stock loose lease printed to recto only in black and blue ink. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Age toning and foxing to the edges. Creases due to being folded vertically and horizontally. One menu item written in black ink. Otherwise a nice copy. Broadside. Small vignette to head of menu. 13-3/4" x 9-1/2" <br/><br/> unknown books
1987178993Paris: Hotel Drouot 1987. Softcover. VG- wear to wrap edges interior very clean. Gold wraps with B&W illustration and lettering. Color illustrations. Unpaginated. 28 plates. French. Catalog for an auction of work by Diego Giacometti 1902-1985 Swiss sculptor and designer. Sale took place on 30 November 1987. Hotel Drouot unknown books
195047568n.p. 1950. Card stock self wrappers slip stapled in black lettering. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some foxing to wrappers dusty edges are corners are rubbed. Internally clean and bright. Bifolium with slip. Pictorial exterior wrappers internally decorative. 13-1/2" x11" <br/><br/> unknown books
194147389n.p. 1941. 1st Printing. White card stock self wrappers printed in brown black and red. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Light soiling and age toning to wrappers internally clean and bright. Printed bifolium. Small vignette to upper wrapper. Titled "General Grant arriving at the old Palace Hotel". 11-2/8" x 8-1/8" <br/><br/> unknown books
194147390n.p. 1941. 1st Printing. White card stock wrappers printed in light blue black and red. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some light soiling to upper wrapper a bit of rubbing to corners otheerwise clean and bright. Printed bifloium. Illustration of the hotel to upper wrapper. Illustration is titled "The Hotel in Bonanza Days - 1875". 11" x 8" <br/><br/> unknown books
19442609Marlin Texas 1944. Small promotional brochure folded once to produce 4 pp. small illustration of the Majestic Hotel on the front panel. Scarce promotional brochure for the Torbett Clinic and Hospital a private corporation founded in 1936 in Marlin Texas which was -- and is now -- famous for its hot mineral water. As it turned out the Torbett Clinic prospered and is today known as the Falls Community Hospital and Clinic. Includes instructions on healthy behavior such as stretch exercises and even a Daily Prayer. Our question: how was even possible that such a little piece of obsolescence should have survived unknown books