Miscellany Cooking Recipes by George Rector (12 results)

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Pictorial Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. The sub- title on the front board is Unveiling the Culinary Mysteries of the World Famous George Rector. Small decorations in black, white, and red are in-text. Laid-in is a card labeled, A Century of Progress, A&P Carnival, Chicago World's Fair, 1933. It has a list of cooking terms, measurements, and temperatures. The cover's spine strip is missing. The boards have shelf wear soiling and rubbed spots. A dent, apparently made by a nail goes from the back board through the back endpaper and last five pages. The front endpaper has three places of color loss, up to a linear 1 1/2 in. About a fifth of the pages have one or more stains, 1/8 in. to 1/2 in. on a margin(s). Scans e-mailed upon request. Standard shipping cost in the U.S. will be reduced. Signed by the Author.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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HARD BACK GREY. Condition: GOOD. general wear to cover and spine. fading to clean white illustrated purple endpapers. contains many recipes, including the magnificent formula for his celebrated Onion soup. pages are clean. illuminated with many Merry Tales, Pictures and more. DATE PUBLISHED: 1933 EDITION: 110.

Hardcover. Condition: poor. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. 110 pages. Illus., quite worn esp at edges, bds soiled, spine missing, p. 15/16 separated but present, hinges weak. Signed by the author. Corners missing on some page (no loss of text), some edge chipping. Title page continues "by George Rector whose Reknown as an Epicure Extends Even to Foreign Lands Including the Magnificant Formula for his Celebrated OnionSoup. Illuminated with many Merry Tales, Pictures, etc., and Painstakingly Edited by an Authority of Note. " Front cover has variant of the title: "a la Rector Unveiling the Culinary Mysteries of the world famous George Rector. ".

8vo. 110, [2] pp. Illust. title in red & black, numerous text illustrations in red & black by Fred Breen. Colour-illustrated boards, cover art by Breen (minor scuffing, edgewear, minor wear to spine, slight bumping to couple corners), still VG copy, signed by Rector on the Carte du Jour page, from the libraries of Shirley Clemenson Daniel & Eleanore Weinstock, w/ bookplate on ffep. First edition, signed, of this excellent collection of recipes on French cooking by Chef George Rector used by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. as a promotional book during the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair in Chicago. (1878-1947) was a restauranter, and food authority, who began his career with Parisian Restaurants, son of Charles Rector who had opened the famed Oyster House in 1884 in Chicago, and operated the Rector's Marine Restaurant at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. George Rector published the year after this his "Dine at home with Rector" with subtitle "A Book on What Men Like, Why They Like It, and How to Cook It," and was columnist for A&P's radio program, as well as their radio program for CBS. Scarce to find in nice condition, and signed. See: Jan Whitaker, Anatomy of a Restaurateur: George Rector, Restaurant-ing through History (2018).

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 156.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 156.