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Cookbooks/Souvenir Menus, and Hotel Del Monte Waiter Badges.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Cookbooks/Souvenir Menus, and Hotel Del Monte Waiter Badges.
A grouping of souvenir menus and cookbooks, with waiter badges, and other miscellaneous ephemera. 1.) ALFRED'S COCKTAILS RESTAURANT SOUVENIR MENU. 886 Broadway, San Francisco. Stapled booklet. Good condition. 2.) CERWIN, HERBERT. Famous Recipes by Famous People. Del Monte: Hotel Del Monte, 1936. First Edition. Illustrations by Paul Whitman. Illustrated paper cover booklet. With humorous food memories/anecdotes from Hollywood figures, and writers such as Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson. Covers with edge tears and stains, pages good with scattered spotting. Together with two metal Hotel del Monte Waiter pin badges. 3.) CARONA AND CARMANIA, CUNARD S.S. CO. LTD. Souvenir booklet with photo illustrations of the ship, c. 1910s. A few edge tears to cover. Together with ship theme advertising card for Hale's California Stores, Salinas. 4.)  CURTIS RESTAURANT AND TEA ROOM / CANDY SHOP. Carmel-by-the-Sea. With specials of the day, paper clipped in. Staining. 5.) GUYER, WILLIAM [ED.]. The Merry Mixer. New York: Jas. E. Pepper & Co., 1933. Illustrated by Herbert F. Roese. With advertising label for Leidig's, Carmel, California. Paper cover booklet. 6.) CELEBRATED ACTOR FOLK'S COOKERIES, A COLLECTION OF THE FAVORITE FOODS OF FAMOUS PLAYERS. New York: Mabel Rowland, Inc., 1916. Pictorial paper cover. Poor condition, spine detached, covers worn, staining/soiling, etc., but fun pages with recipes and either photo or line drawing portraits of the figures, such as Lillian Russell, Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Roscoe Arbuckle. Three pages of advertisements at the back.