[California Cookery]. Compiled by the Women's City Club of Oakland and the East Bay. Drake, Nellie M. - Contributor — DEE - LICIOUS RECIPES
Oakland The Women's City Club (printed by the Professional Press of Berkeley) 1st edition (Brown 170; Glozer 86) [8], 9 - 200, [2 (blank)] pp. Some small b/w illustrations and advertisements throughout. 7-15/16" x 6-3/16" "Dear Readers: Realizing very young that with my limited supply of good looks and figure I would have to cultivate some gift that would attract the opposite sex, I took up cooking. Believe it or not, it worked. -Marie Dressler, MGM Studio, Culver City CA." Rare in the trade. OCLC records 9 institutional holdings worldwide. A bit cocked. Signs of being used, with moderate wear to binding (soiling and tanning to spine and boards, rear board edges fraying and chipped). Age-toning to endpapers. An About VG copy.