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

Illus. with image of the hotel, as well as ads for local businesses. Blue printed cloth. First (Popular) 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. Period manuscript recipes to front and rear endpapers. Rubbing to spine ends & upper corners, lower front corner with cloth frayed, else good.