[CALIFORNIA] [MENUS] Bonanza Banquets - Full Set Number 1-12

THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA

Published by THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA, San Francisco, 1950

About this Item

Bonanza Banquets is a series of twelve essays issued with facsimile Gold Rush era San Francisco menus. Each number consists of a folded sheet with the series title on the front cover and an essay on the interior facing the facsimile menu. The series reproduces historically significant 19th-century San Francisco menus and pairs each with modern commentary by noted California writers, including Lucius Beebe, M. F. K. Fisher, Phil Townsend Hanna, Lindley Bynum, Oscar Lewis, Salvatore Lucia, Lawton Mackall, Robert O Brien, Francis Lewis Gould, Henry Perry, and Ruth Teiser. Together, these facsimile menus document period dishes, language, social customs, and pricing.The set offered here is the complete keepsake series in its original printed folder, housed within the original slipcase. The banquet facsimiles were printed by Anderson & Ritchie of Los Angeles, better known as The Ward Ritchie Press. This example is further accompanied by a typed letter from Elizabeth Downs, Secretary of The Book Club of California, dated March 27, 1951, to a member, noting the enclosed final parts of the series (numbers 9 12) and confirming the completion of the project, with a reminder about ordering the slipcase promptly, as had been necessary during wartime shortages. Essays and menus are pristine; folder lightly toned; slipcase heavily rubbed at the spine. Essays and menus Fine. In very good folder, housed in good slipcase.

Seller Inventory # 4809

Bibliographic Details

• Title: [CALIFORNIA] [MENUS] Bonanza Banquets - Full Set Number 1-12
• Publisher: THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 1950
• Binding: Hardcover
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  • MENU
  • FOOD & DRINK WRITING