The White House Cook Book : a comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home; containing cooking, toilet and household recipes, menus, dinner-giving, table etiquette, care of the sick, health suggestions, facts worth knowing, etc.
Akron: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1925.
Thick quarto (24.5 x 18 cm.), 609, [1] pages. Illustrated frontispiece and plates. Index. Advertisements. Sixth edition (1924), second printing. "Revised for both small and large families" (spine text). Frontispiece portrait of Grace Goodhugh Coolidge (each edition contained a portrait of the current First Lady. First issued in 1887. Hugo Zeimann is identified as "Steward of the White House" and in earlier editions as the "one time caterer for that Prince Napoleon who was killed while fighting the Zulus in Africa". Text block age-toned, but not brittle. Hinges sound. In publisher's cream oil cloth, titled and decorated in black. very light rubbing to extremities, otherwise near fine. Much better than is usually seen for this title. Two ownership inscriptions to the free front endpaper verso.
Price: $120.00