Paris: Bernard Grasset; [Imprimerie E. Durand], 1922. Duodecimo (18 x 12 cm.), 144, [1] pages. Table of contents. Illustrated. Text in French. FIRST EDITION, trade issue. Review copy, with S.P. "Service Presse" on the front wrapper panel. An interesting overview of Parisian restaurants of the early 20th century, classified by categories. "Le Peloton de Tete" (Montagné, Larue, Voisin, Paillard, Foyot, Tour d'Argent), "Restaurants de Luxe" (Viel, Maxim's, Lapérouse, Lucas), "Restaurants.....

Chicago: The Hotel Monthly Press, 1915. Duodecimo, 128, [8 ads], pages. First edition. One of the more elusive of the Hotel Monthly Vest Pocket Guides, with a bit more explanation than Saulnier or Escoffier, and thus quite useful. With the stamp of Lamson's Uniform Company to a preliminary blank, and a bit of a smudge on the front end paper, otherwise very good, in brown cloth, with somewhat faded spine.....

[New York]: Holiday Magazine; Curtis Publishing, 1964. Stapled booklet (8 x 5.5 cm.), 55 pages. Index at rear. Title from cover; author and publication information from text. FIRST EDITION. A follow-up publication to A Guide to New York City Restaurants (1959), itself an expanded version of what began as an article in the October 1959 edition of Holiday magazine with the title "A Holiday Handbook of New York Restaurants". The.....

Vienna: Martin Gerlach, 1899. Oblong portfolio, lettered boards and cloth spine, ties. The portfolio contains fifty-one photographic plates on thick card stock of the interiors of the Rathauskeller, decorated by Lefler and Urban, assisted by Karl Wilda, Alexander Goltz, Hugo Darnaut and others. Lacking the accompanying booklet. The booklet would contain the text and fifteen chromolithograph plates, and frankly the most visually exciting part of the work. The restaurants, wine.....

New York: 1962. Folio, unpaginated [22] leaves, printed rectos only. Printed text from a hand-lettered original; columns for handwritten prices unused. An early wine list from the legendary Manhattan restaurant Lutèce (1961-2004). The list opens with an introductory statement to diners from the restaurant’s founder, André Surmain, who thanks the restaurant’s seven suppliers, a rare credit on modern wine lists, and Alexis Lichine, the author of The Wines of France.....