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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
194017631Greenfield Massachusetts: The Weldon Hotel 1940. Front cover line drawn illustration of French King Bridge near Greenfield; Luncheon & Dinner menu list of items from the grill specials more prices; on back are advertized the offered Picnic Box Lunches and their contents Weldon Dress Shop Hairdressing Parlor & golf; old paper clipped-in "Weldon Special" fairly luridly colored Planked Steak Dinner with details & price; dated Monday July 22 1940; approx. 9 1/2 " x 6 1/4" size; some edge tips wear; and old fold line; overall very good condition and a nice example of 1940 menu good culinary and business history ephemera New England dining just prior to the U.S. involvement in the Second World War. Very Good. The Weldon Hotel unknown 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
1998184177Rosemead CA: the Association 1998. 96p. very good in wraps 8.5x11 inches text mostly in Chinese. Special convention publication of the Association. the Association unknown 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
195047003n.p. 1950. 1st Printing. White card stock self wrappers printed in black and brown lettering now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Light soiling and age toning to outer wrappers spillage to interior of menu but overall a bright copy. Printed bifolium. Photograph of Jack Fina on upper wrapper. 12-3/4" x 8-3/4" <br/><br/> unknown 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
1993136654Turin Italy: Stamperia Artistica Nazionale Editrice 1993. Softcover. G Ex-library with label and bookplate few marks cover has some bends in it pages lightly tanned at top edge. Gray flexible wraps illus. flylfeaves 144 pp. BW & color illus. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with a 1993 exhibition in Paris featuring depictions of women in a variety of artistic media. Artists whose works are included are: Arman Arp Athanassiades Balthus Bourdelle Capucci Cesar Dali Fautrier Gargallo Giacometti Giugiaro Laurens Maillol Martin Masson Miro Morre Newton Picasso Richier Vari and Zadkine. Stamperia Artistica Nazionale Editrice unknown 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
193221221San Francisco California: The Palace Hotel for A.A.O.N.M.S. 1932. A folding menu for a banquet given by this fraternal group at this famous San Francisco hotel; the A.A.O.N.M.S stands for Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine now Shriners International attached to Freemasonry and in existence since 1870; the dining beginning with fillet of sand dabs in aspic on to sweetbreads and fresh mushrooms Eugenie pineapple palace & more for dessert coffee; John H. Skeggs Potentate Wm. H. Woodfield Jr. Director General; approx. 6 1/2" x 8 3/4" size; some wear closed tears along old fold lines and bit of dogearing in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. The Palace Hotel for A.A.O.N.M.S. Paperback books
1941148209New York: New York Hotel Trades Council A.F. of L. 1941. 20p. wraps small chip in margin of rear wrap 9x12 inches heavily illustrated including hotel strike pictures and behind the scene pictures. New York Hotel Trades Council, A.F. of L. unknown 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
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
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
1990235153San Francisco: The Caucus 1990. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill printed one-side-only with text and vintage illustration of a Nineteenth century dinner on salmon stock with light creasing. The Caucus 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
1970887Salt Lake City: Hotel Utah 1970. Sheet of printed letterhead 27 cm x 18.5 cm printed mailing envelope 10.5 cm x 24 cm Small ink scribble on the letterhead otherwise both are fine. The Hotel Utah 1911-1987 was The hotel in Salt Lake that over it's lifetime hosted presidents and dignitaries adjacent to the Salt Lake Temple Block. The building is now known as the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and is primarily used as office space for the LDS Church. Hotel Utah unknown 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
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
193846498n.p. 1938. 1st Printing. White paper black letter now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some age toning. Broadside. 9" x 8" <br/><br/> unknown books
192948251n.p.: Canadian Pacific Hotels 1929. 1st Printing. White card stock wrappers gilt lettering to upper wrapper menu items printed in blue with decorative rule. Light and dark blue letter to lower wrapper. A VG copy. Some soiling/scuffing to wrapper light bumping to edges light foxing to fore-edge of upper wrapper. Otherwise a bright copy. Bifolium. Color illustration of the hotel to upper wrapper. 8-1/2" x 10-2/8" <br/><br/> Canadian Pacific Hotels 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
194347321n.p. 1943. 1st Printing. White card stock wrappers printed in teal and brown. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some light age toning and soiling two vertical creases due to being folded. Pencil marking adjusting menu item. Overall a bright copy. Printed bifolium. 11-1/2" x 9" <br/><br/> unknown 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
193046838San Francisco 1930. 1st Printing. White card stock printed in red and black now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some soiling to leaf edges hae some age toning some creasing to the tail as well a few small tears short tear at head edges and corners are rubbed vertical crease from being folded blue pencil marking to head crossing out "Mural Room" to "R.S." overall a legible menu. Broadside. Small vignette at head. 14" x 8" <br/><br/> unknown books
