The Rector Cook Book (Signed Third Edition)

Rector Publishing Company, Chicago, 1928. Third (3rd) edition. First printing. A near-fine copy, without a jacket. A copy with clean text. Note: Fading on spine, a rubbing mark on front board, and some fraying to extremities (all as pictured). This copy has been SIGNED and inscribed by Rector on the front endpaper: "To Mrs. Martin, with best wishes. George Rector." Rector was a renowned restaurateur (and the son of one), and the Broadway location of Rector's was the basis for the 1909 Broadway musical "The Girl from Rector's." "Mrs. Martin" is possibly the wife of one of the Martin Brothers, who founded Café Martin, a fellow avant-garde establishment in New York at the time, and other New York restaurants in the coming years upon Café Martin's 1910 closing. F300A.