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| MCNEIL, BLANCHE; EDNA MCNEIL. First Foods of America. Los Angeles:, Suttonhouse Ltd.,, 1936., First Edition, Hardcover. Octavo in red cloth stamped in yellow. 150 pages illustrated by a frontis photograph and some food related music. An interesting early cookbook on Mexican cooking for the American audience with some history of its Indian roots. An uncommon book. Clean, bright and sound inside. Covers with very light extremity wear and a barely perceptible corner bump. The attractive and colorful jacket has general shallow chipping, a narrow triangular chip at top front panel, about 1.5 inches missing at spine bottom, about a square inch irregularly across the bottom rear panel missing. Still a very presentable jacket since there is no significant loss to text or decoration. Near Fine in Good Dustjacket. USD 105.60 [Appr.: EURO 70.5 | £UK 63.5 | JP¥ 9320] Book number: 11297 Click here to order or inquire at The Gallagher Collection. | ||
| PACKMAN, ANA BEGUE DE. Early California Hospitality: The Cookery Customs of Spanish California, With Authentic Recipes and Menus of the Period. Glendale CA:, Arthur H. Clark Co.,, 1938., First edition, First printing, Hardcover. Hardback octavo in orange cloth. 182 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the initial blank with a simple impersonal inscription. 1019 copies but reprinted in the 1950's. An important book with a very nice association. "Folk-tales, legends, songs, customs and the intimacies of a Hispano-California household handed down through the generations." Rocq, California Local History 2nd, #4294, quoting the L.A. Times review. Brown, Culinary Americana; #187. Clark & Brunet, The Arthur H. Clark Company, An Americana Century, 1902-2002; #202: "This book combines recipes and history, and has been collectible in both fields for many years . .[and it] is described as 'a cornerstone for a collection on California gastronomy'"citing Strehl, One Hundred Books on California Food and Wine. The bookplate of Juanita Blackburn on the front endpaper. She was the wife of Tom Blackburn, Hollywood western scriptwriter and novelist most often noted for writing the lyrics to the Davy Crockett theme in the 1950's. The book probably spent some time in a sunny kitchen with the spine faded and spotted moderately. However the covers are otherwise just minimally worn and soiled, the binding is sound, and the text is just slightly toned except for the place where a bookmark from the Pickwick Bookshop of Hollywood has nested for many years -- there it is moderately browned. Very good. USD 222.20 [Appr.: EURO 148.25 | £UK 133.75 | JP¥ 19611] Book number: 7275 Click here to order or inquire at The Gallagher Collection. | ||
| TRUAX, CAROL (AS TOLD TO); LIBERACE. Liberace Cooks! Garden City:, Doubleday,, 1970., First Edition, Hardback octavo. Quarter white cloth on blue cloth covered boards. 225 pages illustrated by a handful of color photographs of Liberace's home. Uncommon book on the celebrity's kitchen activities. For someone known for flamboyance, the recipes are pretty down-to-earth. A lovely copy, clean and bright with very minimal fading at edges of covers. The jacket is bright and clean; minor loss of material at spine ends; surface loss at the bottom of the front panel about the size of a thumbnail; price present, but clipped at that corner (which could suggest a different price up to a certain date). Near Fine in Very Good Dustjacket. USD 305.60 [Appr.: EURO 204 | £UK 183.75 | JP¥ 26971] Book number: 10762 Click here to order or inquire at The Gallagher Collection. | ||
| WHITEHEAD, JESSUP. Whitehead's Family Cook Book and Book of Breads and Cakes . . . Chicago:, Published by author,, 1891., Revised Edition, Hardcover. Small quarto, about 10 inches tall, in gilt stamped black ribbed cloth. Pagination is irregular. The first part, subtitled "The Chicago Herald Cooking School" contains a 16 page preface followed by 126 pages that includes menus. This is followed by an unpaginated index. Then comes the Breads and Cakes which is taken from the author's "Hotel Book, and it is paginated starting at p. 123 and ending 170, but with an extra leaf from earlier in that work. This is followed by an unpaginated 20 or so pages of commentary and advertising. An interesting period piece from one of the most prolific cook book authors of the period. A clean copy with a bookseller tag on the front endpaper, but both endpapers split at the gutter. The binding is, however, holding well. Very Good-. USD 111.10 [Appr.: EURO 74.25 | £UK 67 | JP¥ 9805] Book number: 11650 Click here to order or inquire at The Gallagher Collection. |
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