AN INTRODUCTION TO HELEN EVANS BROWN AND HER LIBRARY
Pasadena, California: Printed and published by Vance Gerry at the Weather Bird Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 50 copies, all bound in boards by Mariana Blau. This copy is inscribed and dated by Janet Jarvits on the front flyleaf. Short essay on the influential American chef and culinary writer Helen Evans Brown (1904-64), one of the foremost exponents of California cuisine, and her remarkable collection of cookbooks, which was acquired by Southern California bookseller Janet Jarvits. Small octavo: 16, [4] pp. with a tipped-in frontispiece portrait and a color facsimile of Brown's bookplate. Colorfully patterned paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine with gilt-stamped titling. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Fine / Fine. Item #80466
Price: $350.00