(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (California - Los Angeles) Helen Evans Brown.Chafing Dish Book. *Signed*

Dec. gray cloth, paper cover label. Second Edition. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, [1951].

Signed by Brown on the front free endpaper. Bookplate of Patti Carruthers from the Poodle Dog Restaurant in San Francisco. Brown was a Los Angeles food writer who was well-connected to other West Coast cooks and authors of the day, like James Beard. The Poodle Dog Restaurant (formerly The Old Poodle Dog) was a San Francisco institution for many decades.

Staining inside and out, thus good only, but a nice association copy.

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