Virginia City Cook Book : A Compendious Collection of Hundreds of Recipes in All Branches of Domestic Cookery, Contributed by the Residents, Past and Present, of Virginia City, Nevada

"With an Historical Foreword Extolling the Glories of Comstock Comestibles by Lucius Beebe, Esq., Nabob Extraordary". Oblong 8.5 x 5.5. 148pp.1964 4th printing. Back cover has full length crease (doubled over). Mild edgewear with rub marks on front foredge and spine. Tight binding with clean bright interior. Written in prose style with tremendous amount of historical and memorialist anecdotes. On page 89, for example, the entry for "Gus Bundy's Sagehen" opens with "We hesitate to give you this recipe, for these delectable wild fowls are almost as scarce as passenger pigeons, having met with much the same fate. In the golden days of Virginia City they were abundant." or for a contemporary contribution: "Eddie Armanino's Rabbit Polenta. Eddie's done just about everything there is to do in town -- bartending, sheriffing, mending water flumes. Now he's curator of lovely old St. Mary's in the Mountains."(p.88).