(San Francisco) Hirtzler, Victor. Hotel St. Francis Book of Recipes and Model Menus: L'Art Culinaire.

Mustard printed cloth First (Subscription) Edition. San Francisco: Putney Haight, 1910.

Menus designed by Hirtzler for the hotel, along with recipes, incl. German pancakes, cream of sorrel soup, hassenpfeffer, crabapple jelly, etc. Ads for local businesses throughout. Hirtzler (c.1875-1931) was a Strasbourg-born chef who headed San Francisco's famed St. Francis Hotel restaurant from its opening in 1904 until 1926. Considered one of America's first celebrity chefs, he invented dishes and gave them memorable names, wrote cookbooks, and hosted extravagant meals. Some fading and rubbing to cloth, chipping to spine head; owner's name to front pastedown, else very good.