California in the Kitchen. An Essay upon, and a check-list of, California Imprints in the Field of Gastronomy from 1870(?)-1932.
[Berkeley, CA]: Privately printed [lithographed by David Brothers], 1960. Octavo (22 x14 cm.), ix, 43 pages. Illustrated with three unpaginated plates of facsimiles. Bibliography and index. FIRST EDITION. One of 500 copies. A necessary starting point for any collector of California cookbooks – a union listing of three hundred fifty-nine items published in California from Bartholomew White's Book of Domestic Recipes (Napa City, 1866) through 1930. Blue cloth, gilt-titled on.....