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1946réf. 2561Boston: The Somerset Hotel 1946. Cards. Green illustrated cards with yellow string tassel. Near fine. Unpaginated 4 pages. 30.5 x 21.5 Dinner dancing and music at this 1940's Boston social event hosted by the who's who of Boston's upper class - including Miss Katherine Winthrop a top-ranked American tennis player. Full page listing the Girls' Clubs of Boston's Board of Directors Dinner Dance Committee and office holders - all filled out by the wives of privileged class. Music by Ranny Weeks and his Orchestra. Menu highlights a choice of Lobster Newburg or broiled tenderloin. Last page describes the Island of Bali highlights religious customs government and various facts or most likely fiction. Clean crisp copy. The Somerset Hotel books
1936réf. 144619New York: Hotel Astor 1936. Original lunch menu from the Times Square Hotel Astor in New York City dated Wednesday October 7 1936. The successor to the Astor family's Waldorf-Astoria hotel an essential element of Times Square's growth into an entertainment location and a widely-known bar for pickups the Hotel Astor notably encouraged gay men to frequent the bar for pickups as well. The hotel was in operation from 1904 through 1967 featuring many well known musicians including Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra with big band leader Vincent Lopez and his orchestra advertised on this menu. The menu dates from a year after the hotel's first renovation and features an extensive partially French inspired cuisine including a Philadelphia Pepper Pot broiled mackerel turkey wings and a tomato cheese and asparagus cold salad as the daily specials. The hotel's location is now occupied by a 54-story office tower. Single fold three-color menu 9 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with light soil. Hotel Astor unknown books
1898réf. LLV2670Territet & Montreux: 1898-1910. 1898. A look into the turn-of-the-century activities of a major hotel and the registers for recording guests from 1898-1910. These registers offer a primary resource to study the activities of the Hotel des Alpes & Grand Hotel Territet & Montreux. FIVE ALBUMS: 1 Hotel des Alpes & Grand Hotel. Livre des Etrangers. Approx. 26x37 cm. Unpaginated. Original quarter calf maroon gilt-stamped boards. This is an alphabetical register of guests showing the room number date of arrival the guest names home city number of persons in the party usually 1 or 2. Written in a clerk’s hand. As one might expect the list of guests shows largely European origins but other guests originate from as far away at Bombay and the U.S.A. 2 Livres d’arrivees. Album dated 1904. Approx. 31x41 cm. 600 pp. Brown linen. Manuscript entries from pages 1-397. The entries are dated 1905-1908 and are chronological. Again the main information here is last names and cities of origin as is usual. There is an accounting of the number of guests allowing a statistical analysis of the guest list. 3 Grand Hotel Territet arrivees. Approx. 26x36 cm. Unpaginated. Black cloth. Inset red leather title label stamped in gilt. Contains manuscript entries throughout from 1898 through 1901. The first names written in the ledger are: L. A. le Naharadja Kapurlhala India Colonel Marshall India Dewan Daolet Ram India. Dr. Louis Huysmans 1844-1915 Bruxelles was a guest on Sept. 4 1898. Louis Huysmans was best known for his loyalty to the monarchy and his patriotism. After the outbreak of the First World War he went into exile with his relatives in France and lived in the seaside resort of Sainte-Adresse the seat of the Belgian government in exile. 4 Grand Hotel Territet Livre des Etrangers. Approx. 31x44 cm. Unpaginated. Bound in ledger format leather applied to the upper and lower parts of the binding maroon gilt-stamped cover label pale brown tan cloth over boards. Filled with entries in the first 1/3 of the tome. Shop label of Papeterie Librairie Chs. Serex Vevey. Entries date from August 25 1905 through September 22 1909. Clerk hand. Shows names & cities for each entry. 5 Journal. 1904-1910. Approx. 34x47 cm. Shop label of Papeterie Librairie Chs. Serex Vevey. Foliated: 397 ff. Black or dark brown cloth red cloth gilt-stamped cover label; edges worn front joint mended with kozo. Internally very good. This is perhaps the most interesting of the registers. This particular one is unique among the five registers as this one details the operation of the hotel itself who they hired and/or what was supplied. Categories shown include: Cuisine kitchen “Chocolat Peter” etc. Cave wine: “G. Masson” “Beauregard” wine “Eaux de Montreux” “Blanchot” white wine “Gallo” accounting/tax/ new constructions/ lighting eclairage heating chauffage building maintenance entretien immeubles New York Herald reclamer laundry room buanderie etc. / General Notes Regarding the History of this Hotel: The Hotel des Alpes-Grand Hotel or Residence des Alpes is an assemblage of buildings which formed a former palace in the town of Territet in the Montreux municipality of Switzerland. In 1840 the town bought a parcel of land on which to build a hostel entitled ‘Chasseur des Alpes’. Over the following years this hostel was enlarged three times to become - in 1855 - the Hotel des Alpes. The main building was designed by Henri Chessex son of the owner and brother of Ami Chessex. The opening of the Hotel led to a tourist boom and in 1861 a railway line was opened between Montreux and Villeneuve calling at Territet. In 1875 a dining hall was added to the building and two years later Ami Chessex chose the architect Louis Maillard later joined by Eugene Jost to build the Grand Hotel beside the Hotel des Alpes. The decor was by Marcel de Chollet. The two buildings were linked by a corridor and soon formed a single structure. / Among the Hotel’s many notable guests were Elisabeth of Bavaria who visited four times and Francis Joseph I of Austria in 1893. The Hotel built on this success housing the first telephone in Switzerland. In 1975 it closed and its main hall and dining hall were turned into a theatre whilst the Grand Hotel’s bedrooms became the National Swiss Audiovisual Museum though this closed in 2008 and left the premises in 2012 to allow for their renovation. The two buildings are classed as cultural monuments. It suffered fires on 29 January 1984 and 28 September 2012. / This property is part of the ensemble Hetel des Alpes-Grand Hotel a monument of national importance. It belongs to Andre Regne better known under the pseudonym of "Dad" who was a key figure in the Montreux nightlife. The Alcazar a true Belle-Epoque jewel was built by the architect Eugene Jost at the end of the 19th century. Added pictures on request. ROUGH FRENCH TRANSLATION: OFFERTS A LA VENTE : Un regard sur les activites du debut du siecle d’un grand hotel et les registres d’enregistrement des clients de 1898 a 1910. Ces registres offrent une ressource primaire pour etudier les activites de l’Hotel des Alpes & Grand Hotel Territet & Montreux. 1 Hotel des Alpes & Grand Hotel. Livre des Etrangers. Environ 26x37 cm. Non pagine. Veau d’origine plats marron dores. / Il s’agit d’un registre alphabetique des invites indiquant le numero de la chambre la date d’arrivee les noms des invites la ville d’origine le nombre de personnes dans le groupe generalement 1 ou 2. Ecrit de la main d’un greffier. Comme on peut s’y attendre la liste des invites est essentiellement d’origine europeenne mais d’autres invites viennent d’aussi loin que Bombay et les Etats-Unis. 2 Livres d’arrivees. Album date 1904. Environ 31x41 cm. 600 pages. Lin brun. Entrees manuscrites des pages 1-397. Les entrees sont datees de 1905 a 1908 et sont chronologiques. La encore les principales informations sont les noms de famille et les villes d’origine comme d’habitude. Il y a un decompte du nombre d’invites permettant une analyse statistique de la liste des invites. 3 Grand Hotel Territet arrivees. Environ 26x36 cm. Non pagine. Toile noire. Etiquette de titre en cuir rouge emboîtee estampee en dore. Contient des entrees manuscrites tout au long de l’ouvrage de 1898 a 1901. Les prenoms ecrits dans le grand livre sont : L. A. le Naharadja Kapurlhala Inde Colonel Marshall Inde Dewan Daolet Ram Inde. Le Dr Louis Huysmans 1844-1915 Bruxelles a ete invite le 4 septembre 1898. Louis Huysmans etait surtout connu pour sa loyaute envers la monarchie et son patriotisme. Apres le debut de la Premiere Guerre mondiale il s’exila avec ses proches en France et vecut dans la station balneaire de Sainte-Adresse siege du gouvernement belge en exil. 4 Grand Hotel Territet Livre des Etrangers. Environ 31x44 cm. Non pagine. Relie en format grand livre cuir applique sur les parties superieures et inferieures de la reliure etiquette de couverture marron doree toile brun pâle tan sur les planches. Rempli d’entrees dans le premier 1/3 du tome. Etiquette de magasin de la Papeterie Librairie Chs. Serex Vevey. Les entrees datent du 25 août 1905 au 22 septembre 1909. Main de clerc. Indique les noms et les villes pour chaque entree. 5 Journal. 1904-1910. Environ 34x47 cm. Etiquette de magasin de la Papeterie Librairie Chs. Serex Vevey. Foliote : 397 ff. Toile noire ou brun fonce etiquette de couverture en toile rouge doree ; bords uses joint avant raccommode avec du kozo. En forme. C’est peut-être le plus interessant des registres. Il est unique parmi les cinq registres car il detaille le fonctionnement de l’hotel lui-même les personnes engagees et/ou les fournitures. Les categories presentees comprennent : Cuisine "Chocolat Peter" etc. Cave vin : "G. Masson" "Beauregard" "Eaux de Montreux" "Blanchot" "Gallo" comptabilite/taxe/ nouvelles constructions/ eclairage chauffage entretien immeubles New York Herald buanderie etc. / Notes generales sur l’histoire de cet hotel : L’Hotel des Alpes-Grand Hotel ou Residence des Alpes est un ensemble de bâtiments qui formaient un ancien palais dans la ville de Territet sur la commune de Montreux en Suisse. / En 1840 la ville achete une parcelle de terrain pour y construire une auberge intitulee "Chasseur des Alpes". Au cours des annees suivantes cette auberge a ete agrandie a trois reprises pour devenir en 1855 l’Hotel des Alpes. Le bâtiment principal est conçu par Henri Chessex fils du proprietaire et frere d’Ami Chessex. L’ouverture de l’Hotel entraîne un boom touristique et en 1861 une ligne de chemin de fer est ouverte entre Montreux et Villeneuve avec arrêt a Territet. En 1875 un refectoire est ajoute au bâtiment et deux ans plus tard Ami Chessex choisit l’architecte Louis Maillard rejoint plus tard par Eugene Jost pour construire le Grand Hotel a cote de l’Hotel des Alpes. Le decor est signe Marcel de Chollet. Les deux bâtiments sont relies par un couloir et ne forment bientot plus qu’une seule structure. / Parmi les nombreux hotes de marque de l’Hotel on compte Elisabeth de Baviere qui y sejourne a quatre reprises et François-Joseph Ier d’Autriche en 1893. L’Hotel s’est appuye sur ce succes pour abriter le premier telephone de Suisse. En 1975 il a ferme ses portes et sa grande salle et son refectoire ont ete transformes en theâtre tandis que les chambres du Grand Hotel sont devenues le Musee national suisse de l’audiovisuel mais celui-ci a ferme en 2008 et a quitte les lieux en 2012 pour permettre leur renovation. Les deux bâtiments sont classes monuments culturels. Il a subi des incendies le 29 janvier 1984 et le 28 septembre 2012. / Cette propriete fait partie de l’ensemble Hetel des Alpes-Grand Hotel monument d’importance nationale. Elle appartient a Andre Regne plus connu sous le pseudonyme de "Dad" qui etait une figure incontournable de la vie nocturne montreusienne. L’Alcazar veritable joyau de la Belle-Epoque a ete construit par l’architecte Eugene Jost a la fin du XIXe siecle. Photos sur demande. HEAVY! EXTA POSTAGE WILL APPLY. 1898-1910. hardcover books
1944réf. 2609Marlin Texas 1944. Small promotional brochure folded once to produce 4 pp. small illustration of the Majestic Hotel on the front panel. Scarce promotional brochure for the Torbett Clinic and Hospital a private corporation founded in 1936 in Marlin Texas which was -- and is now -- famous for its hot mineral water. As it turned out the Torbett Clinic prospered and is today known as the Falls Community Hospital and Clinic. Includes instructions on healthy behavior such as stretch exercises and even a Daily Prayer. Our question: how was even possible that such a little piece of obsolescence should have survived unknown books
1886réf. 27638San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Co. 1886. Contemporary staples in original printed wrappers. 24 16 pp. Folding frontis engraving of the Hotel Del Monte "America's Famous Summer and Winter Resort" laid in. Light wear minor spotting Good or better with many illustrations and advertisements from railroads and Bay Area business establishments. Naturally the unsurpassed quality of the Del Monte is emphasized: it "reminds one infinitely more of a modern English country mansion than of an American watering-place hotel." Photo illustrations of the hotel and sketches of its interior abound. The pamphlet also dwells on the beauties and sights of Monterey-- Pacific Grove Retreat Point Pinos Light House Moss Beach Seal Rocks Cypress Point the Carmel Mission. The excellent climate is also noted. Advertisers include the Southern Pacific Broad Gauge Company the Park and Ocean Railroad the Market St. Cable Railway the Wilkins House in Santa Cruz the Pacific Ocean House and others. OCLC 54266041 2- Yale CA State Lib. as of June 2021 but collating only 24pp. Not in Cowan. Rocq 5713 similar but probably not identical item. A.L. Bancroft & Co. unknown books
1919réf. 5838Chicago: Published by The Hotel Monthly Press John Willy Inc 1919. Large octavo 26 x 17.5 cm. iv 430 iv pages. Photographic portrait of the author in chef's whites and smoking cap frontispiece. Publisher's advertisements. Indexes. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A handsome reminting of selected material originally presented in the author's Hotel St. Francis Book of Recipes and Model Menus: L'Art culinaire of 1910 an important and influential professional cookbook that marked San Francisco's emergence as a world culinary center; includes too a sampling of menu files for corporate banquets and luncheons catered by the kitchen staff of St. Francis between 1915 and 1919 that is after the publication of L'Art culinaire. Composed as a series of menus ordered according to the calendar year at the head of each page followed beneath by recipes - some detailed some perfunctory - for selected items from the menus. The scope may be reasonably described as considerable. That the general index lists two hundred named recipes alone for preparing eggs conveys some idea of Hirtzler's manifestly irrepressible capacity for invention. ~ It is useful to remember that a century and more ago many of the compilers of local cookery books could claim intellectual ownership of what they published only by stretching the notion of authorship beyond all recognition. Maids and cooks were the relevant repositories of knowledge and disseminators of practice. And when the privileged class traveled - sometimes staying in one place for weeks months or seasons - hospitality service was for all intents and purposes an elaboration of home. Staff including those supervising the great hotel and resort dining rooms of the age were servants. Chefs may have been well regarded even fêted but today it is easy to forget that in yesterday's world the road to celebrity was paved by servitude. ~ But their cookbooks were the expression of their own authorial voices. In this they must be counted as unrepresentative of early cookbook publishing broadly however much their intricate arrangements garner attention. They may nonetheless be representative of place revelatory of both the preferences of a community and of the extensive apparatus built to satisfy it. ~ The bibliographer Dan Strehl identified the Alsatian Victor Hirtzler 1874-1931 some time ago in One Hundred Books on California Food & Wine Los Angeles: The Book Collectors 1990 page 21. as "one of the earliest celebrity chefs." Among other means of attracting restaurant clientele "Hirtzler presented seasonal menus demonstrating the highly sophisticated hotel dining of the time" with menus heavily influenced by the haute cuisine of European royal courts. After a sidereal career that included posts at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and the royal Belém Palace in Lisbon he had arrived at the St. Francis on Union Square in 1904 endured the catastrophes of 1906 and remained after the city's rebuilding until 1925 when he retired to Strasbourg. A fuller account is available in David Shields's The Culinarians Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2017 pages 526-529. Thus it would not be far off the mark to describe the Hotel Monthly Press edition published in Chicago as a sort of monument or Gesamtausgabe honoring the career and achievement of an admired artist. ~ Near fine in publisher's green boards lettered and bordered in gilt. OCLC locates ninety copies; Bitting page 231; Brown 843; Cagle 363; not in Stoner. Published by The Hotel Monthly Press, John Willy, Inc hardcover books
1814réf. 7383Norristown Penn. 1814. Single sheet 20.75 x 11.5 cm. but irregular printed recto only; typographical border. Manuscript annotations. ~ A very early Pennsylvania bill of fare for the Norristown Hotel with a list of items on offer including Breakfast Dinner Supper Lodging Wine Brandy Gin Spirits Punch Porter Beer Cider Segars Hay and Oats. Manuscript annotations indicate "Gentleman's Bill May 16th 1814" with handwritten prices added for dinner brandy porter hay and oats a man on the move!. The final lines indicate payment of $4.25 and the elaborate signature of hotel owner Morris Jones. "Morris Jones gives notice in July 1813 that he kept the "Norristown Hotel corner of Egypt or Main and De Kalb Streets" and that "a constant supply of newspapers will be kept for the use of the house." This is interesting for giving an early mention of "hotel" which it would appear was now about being introduced as more pretentious than inn or tavern. It was a two-story stone house forty by thirty-seven feet with an adjoining kitchen. The stable was also of stone fifty by twenty-seven feet with sheds and outbuildings. This property was built by General Isaiah Wells about 1800 and kept by him until his election as sheriff when he moved to the jail. It was long known as the most noted stage-house in Norristown. In 1834 the Norristown Hotel was then kept by Levi Roberts and was offered at public sale by the assignees of Isaiah Wells." Bean's 1884 History of Montgomery Co PA; http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/montgomery/beantoc.htm. A single horizontal crease from a fold; small pinhole between first two lines of text. Otherwise fine. Unrecorded. OCLC locates now copies not in AAS or Library Company of Philadelphia. unknown books
1910réf. 6753San Francisco: Putney Haight Telegraph Press; Printed and Bound by the Hicks-Judd Company 1910. Octavo 24 x 16 cm. 31 67-307 pages. Advertisements. Illustration of the Hotel on page 3. Portrait of the author in chef's whites and smoking cap on page 6. ~ FIRST EDITION stated subscription issue. One of the more important and influential early California professional cookbooks marking San Francisco's emergence as a world culinary center. Divided between a menu section Part 1 with two hundred menus and "Extraordinary and Secret Compositions in Culinary Art" Part 2 with more than two thousand recipes. A dose of hyperbole can be assumed regarding the claim to secrecy as at least some of the recipes had appeared in the author's column in The Evening Post whose collaboration is acknowledged on page 18. A sampling: Austrian Soup Bread Berliner Pfannkuchen English Crumpets Velvet Soup Cream of Chicory Soup Green Walnut Confit Bar le Duc Crème au Kirsch Coup St. Jacques Chiffonade Salad Salad Eugenie Okra and Sweet Peppers mistakenly printed twice Tripe à la mode Caen Baron of Lamb Squab Michels Quail Forestiere Fondue Savarin Pineapple Omelette Bohemian Eggs String Beans with Raisins Viennese Carrots Raspberry Souffle Cream Puffs St. Francis. ~ The bibliographer Dan Strehl identified the Alsatian Victor Hirtzler 1874-1931 some time ago in One Hundred Books on California Food and Wine Los Angeles: The Book Collectors 1990 page 21. as "one of the earliest celebrity chefs." Among other means of attracting restaurant clientele "Hirtzler presented seasonal menus demonstrating the highly sophisticated hotel dining of the time" with menus heavily influenced by the haute cuisine of European royal courts. After a sidereal career that included posts at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and the royal Belém Palace in Lisbon he had arrived at the St. Francis on Union Square in 1904 and thus endured the catastrophes of 1906 and remained after the rebuilding until 1925 when he retired to Strasbourg. A fuller account is available in David Shields's The Culinarians Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2017 pages 526-529. ~ The didactic "models" presentation of L'Art culinaire is likely intended as a counter to Escoffier's Le guide culinaire a reference text that had recently appeared in an abridged English translation in 1907. Hirtzler's subscription edition of 1910 which includes a list of the patrons who underwrote its publication has become quite scarce. Stamped "Subscription Edition" on the front cover; includes the list of patrons that according to the edition note on page 9 was reserved for subscribers; all of these copies are missing two signatures which accounts for the pagination gap. ~ In publisher's tan cloth with black lettering. Light rubbing and extremity wear to covers. The front paste-down bears an ownership inscription in red pencil "Property of Marge deYoung Portland Ore." and the free front endpaper a rubber-stamped name and address of an Oregon paperback exchange. Good. OCLC locates thirteen copies of the subscription edition; Bitting page 230; Brown 95 undated; Glozer 127; Strehl 19; Cagle 362; not in Stoner. Putney Haight, Telegraph Press; Printed and Bound by the Hicks-Judd Company hardcover books
1940réf. 5824San Francisco Calif: Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte 1940. Large octavo 62 pages. Index. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and pale brown. Second edition originally published under the slightly different title Famous Recipes of Famous People and issued by the Hotel del Monte without Sunset Magazine in 1936. A compilation of celebrity recipes with the recipes attributed to the famous including: Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck Walt Disney J. Edgar Hoover Rube Goldberg and many others. Also includes a section of recipes of well-known chefs of the day with a bias toward California Hotels and the west in general as well as a short section of recipes from the Hotel Del Monte. The playful illustrations by Sinclair Ross alternately reference Hollywood and the frontier West. Endpapers reproduce the autographs of many of the celebrities featured in the book. Publisher's gilt-decorated cream-colored boards near fine. In clean and bright yellow dust jacket printed in blue and orange but with several good-sized chips to the front and rear panels. Dust jacket is good only. Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte hardcover books
réf. 46496title from spine: Catalogue des Tableaux de la Galerie de San Donato. 71 pp. auction catalogue offering 23 works by Dutch and Flemish masters including Cuyp Hobbema Metsu Ostade Rembrandt Rubens etc. with an introductory letter by Ernest Chesneau and item descriptions by Francis Petit illustrated on 23 plates engraved after the paintings by M. Braquemond. Small 4to. 1/2 leather marbled boards. Paris Imprimé chez A. Pillet 1868. hardcover books
réf. 39694TRADE CARD-SHAKESPEARE HOTEL SHAKESPEARE HOTEL. THE SHAKESPEARE HOTEL AND ITS FIVE GABLES. Stratford-on-Avon: Nineteenth century. 8vo. Stiff card stock 3 3/4 x 4 1/ inches. Scarce printed trade card for the Shakespeare Hotel in Stratford-on-Avon illustrating its street front with the modern building with the main entranc flanking the sixteenth-century half-timer five-gabled wing adjoining it. The name of the proprietor C. Justins is printed in the lower left corner. A fi period souvenir card for the visitor. Very good. unknown books
1881réf. 55480New York 1881. Approx. 11" x 8½" the engraving approx. 4" x 7¾"; previous folds and with a couple of very short splits; otherwise very good. The hotel stood across the street from the Grand Central Depot which is also pictured in the image. unknown books
1872réf. 49194Louisville KY: John P. Morton & Co 1872. Bifolium approx. 8¼" x 5½" showing on the front a wood engraving of the Louisville Hotel with hours of operation and on the back a wood engraving of another M. Kean & Co. property Maxwell House. The double-page spread on the inside gives an elaborate dinner menu on p. 2 for Tuesday March 19 including turtle soup leg of mutton jole and greens calf's feet a la Horli Sago cakes with wine roast prairie grouse with jelly as well as assorted vegetables relishes pastries and desserts; the wine list on page 3 lists 10 champaigns 14 clarets 3 ports 9 "native wines" and assorted white wines cider liqueurs ales and porters all with prices affixed. Fine example. The Louisville Hotel opened in 1833 was the city's first large elegant hotel; it closed in 1938 and was razed in 1949. M. Kean & Co the owner of the hotel also ran the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville which opened in 1869. John P. Morton & Co unknown books
1930réf. 48460Brastagi Indonesia 1930. Paperback. Very Good. photos map 8 panels. Single sheet 40cm. x 31cm. folded to form a brochure. Narrow 23cm. as folded. Commercial brochure for a hotel in northern Sumatra. paperback books
réf. 104502 1/4" x 5 1/2". 4 panel folding brochure. 3 halftone illustrations; map. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. 700 rooms. Printed by Ames Hard Co. Includes rates $1.50 to $2.50 per day directions etc. Hotel Cecil is now at the center of the docu-series "Crime Scene" directed by Joe Berlinger. AMES HARD COMPANY books
1929réf. 185939Paris: Imprimerie Georges Petit 1929. Softcover. VG/G- covers are heavily worn and the text has been wear out. Spine cracked and faded. Previous owner attempted to pencil title back in. Pages are clean and tight. Would look great with a re-bind. Tan wraps. 46 pages 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. Text in French. Collection Gustave Cahen. Translated: "Catalogue of watercolours drawings and sketches by Henry Monnier 1805-1877: from the collection of Mr. Gustave Cahen." 185 lots./ Sale held at the Hôtel Drouot room no. 10./ "Exposition publique le vendredi 7 juin 1929 de deux heures à six heures" from title page./ Introduction by Hector Brame./ Place of sale: Paris. Date of sale: June 8 1929. Imprimerie Georges Petit unknown books
1949réf. 4930fdHavana: E. E. de Publicaciones 1949. Daily Distribution Wednesday August 24 1949. Includes: Distinguished Vistors of the day by hotel; Shoppers’ Guide; Where Havana Dines; tax information; advertisements. Octavo pictorial wrappers stapled 20 pp. Very Good. E. E. de Publicaciones, 1949. unknown books
1940réf. 17631Greenfield Massachusetts: The Weldon Hotel 1940. Front cover line drawn illustration of French King Bridge near Greenfield; Luncheon & Dinner menu list of items from the grill specials more prices; on back are advertized the offered Picnic Box Lunches and their contents Weldon Dress Shop Hairdressing Parlor & golf; old paper clipped-in "Weldon Special" fairly luridly colored Planked Steak Dinner with details & price; dated Monday July 22 1940; approx. 9 1/2 " x 6 1/4" size; some edge tips wear; and old fold line; overall very good condition and a nice example of 1940 menu good culinary and business history ephemera New England dining just prior to the U.S. involvement in the Second World War. Very Good. The Weldon Hotel unknown books
1927réf. SGG213B-17Del Monte CA:: Del Monte Properties Company circa 1927. Paperback. Very Good. William H. Bull 1861-1940. Stapled Folding Brochure. 9 x 4 inches closed. Two sheets of paper stapled together at the center fold 24 panels opens at the center-fold to 24 x 9 inches. Illustrated with water-colors and black-and-white photographs decorative initials the center-fold consists on 1 large color map of the Monterey Peninsula drawn by W. H. Bull; text clean unmarked. Folding brochure of self-wraps with colored drawings; binding square and tight rubbed especially at the folds. Laid in is an invoice from the Hotel del Monte rubber stamped "Paid" and dated January 31 1927 total charge is for $30.00 including room and board charge of $6.00 per night. Very Good. Del Monte now incorporated into the City of Monterey was a resort established by Charles Crocker one of California's Big Four railroad barons. The grounds of the luxury resort hotel were created through the Southern Pacific Railroad's property division Pacific Improvement Company which completed the first hotel on the property in 1880. The Hotel Del Monte included the hotel parkland polo grounds and a golf course as well as the seventeen-mile drive from the hotel to Pebble Beach which was developed as another portion of the resort. This brochure includes a color map illustrated by William H. Bull 1861-1940 a prolific and successful commercial artist. The Southern Pacific Company hired Bull as their first commercial artist and by 1915 he also produced work regularly for Sunset Magazine. He lived in San Mateo and produced illustrations for chamber of commerce publications. REFERENCE: Kurutz and Kurutz California Calls You pp. 98 164-165. Del Monte Properties Company, paperback books
2012réf. 22409ELos Angeles: Fox Searchlight 2012. First Edition. Original deluxe promotional material specially printed in a small number for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration of Oscar nominations for the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel directed by John Madden screenplay by Ol Parker adapted from the novel by Deborah Moggach starring Judi Dench Bill Nighy Tom Wilkinson Penelope Wilton Maggie Smith Ronal Pickup Celia Imrie Dev Patel and Tina Desai. 7 3/4” x 5 1/4”. The material is comprised of 11 double-sided cards enclosed in a matching envelope all printed on card stock with full color illustrations and quotes from a variety of reviews. All fine condition. Fox Searchlight unknown books
2004réf. 20991ELos Angeles: United Artists n.d. 2004. First Edition. Paperbound cloth tape binding 8 1/2” x 11” 128 pages. This is first appearance in book form of this screenplay specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Original Screenplay. Fine in printed wrappers. Shooting script for the film Hotel Rwanda written by Keir Pearson and Terry George directed by Terry George starring Don Cheadle Sophie Okoneda Joaquin Phoenix Nick Nolte Hakeem Kae-Kazim and Fana Mokoena. The film was nominated for Oscars for Best Actor Cheadle Best Supporting Actress Okonedo and Best Original Screenplay. United Artists hardcover books
1964réf. 262407Paris: Hotel Drouot 1964. paperback. Text in French. Illustrated with black and white photos of bindings and illustrations of books for sale. Very slim 4to paper wrappers dust wrapper. Paris: Hotel Drouot 1964. A very good copy. Catalog of books with bindings by Marius Michel Pierre Legrain and Paul Bonet Hotel Drouot unknown books
1967réf. 222438Denver 1967. paperback. very good-. Many color and b/w Illus. 40pp. 8vo pr. wrs. wrappers lightly soiled front wrapper partially faded. Denver 1967. History of the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver Colorado. unknown books
1909réf. 7574Minneapolis Minn: New Hotel Dyckman 1909. Duodecimo-sized booklet single-stapled in wrappers 11 x 6.5 cm. 44 pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional drink manual promoting Minneapolis' very fine Dyckman Hotel. One hundred-one recipes for cocktails are listed including some lesser-known gems: American Beauty Careless Love Bijou Charlie Horse Opalescent and the Electric Eel. Pages a bit age-toned and staples somewhat oxidized; a few small dog ears. In publisher's black wrappers titled in silver. Very good. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; not in Noling. New Hotel Dyckman unknown books
1993réf. 136654Turin Italy: Stamperia Artistica Nazionale Editrice 1993. Softcover. G Ex-library with label and bookplate few marks cover has some bends in it pages lightly tanned at top edge. Gray flexible wraps illus. flylfeaves 144 pp. BW & color illus. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with a 1993 exhibition in Paris featuring depictions of women in a variety of artistic media. Artists whose works are included are: Arman Arp Athanassiades Balthus Bourdelle Capucci Cesar Dali Fautrier Gargallo Giacometti Giugiaro Laurens Maillol Martin Masson Miro Morre Newton Picasso Richier Vari and Zadkine. Stamperia Artistica Nazionale Editrice unknown books
