DINING In NEW YORK With RECTOR. A Personal Guide to Good Eating
Published by Prentice-Hall Inc, New York, 1939
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.Tavistock Books, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since July 4, 1996
Condition: Used
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ix, [1 (blank)], 275, [3 (blank)] pp (including Index). 8vo. George Rector was a restaurateur, raconteur and food authority who wrote several cookbooks in the 1920s and 1930s. He appeared on radio on the Columbia Broadcasting System in Dine with George Rector and played himself in at least one movie, Every Day's a Holiday (1937), with Mae West. Rector was born in Chicago, where his fatherCharles E. Rectorran Rector's Oyster House. He claimed his father took him out of Cornell University where he was studying law, and sent him to Paris to learn how to make a sauce for filet of sole. Rector and his father ran several restaurants in New York State and Chicago. At Rector's on Broadway in New York City, he and his father were known for serving celebrities of the 1910s, as Rector's was known as "a leading resort of the theatrical, financial and social worlds of those days". The restaurant closed with the coming of prohibition. [Wiki]. Slight lean. Some modest wear & soiling to cloth. Pencil scribble to front paste-down. Very Good. Orange cloth binding with silver stamped lettering. No dust jacket.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- DINING In NEW YORK With RECTOR. A Personal Guide to Good Eating
- Author
- Rector, George [1879? - 1947]
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall Inc, New York
- Publication year
- 1939
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
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Tavistock Books, established in 1989, specializes in First Editions, Antiquarian Rare & Collectible bibliophilic material with a special focus on Charles Dickens. We maintain a stock of 3000 volumes, which may be seen by appointment or by chance when you are in the greater Reno Area, or by browsing our Web page @ www.tavbooks.com. Tavistock Books is a proud member of the Antiquarian Bookseller's Association of America, the Independent On-Line Booksellers' Association and the Grolier Club.…
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