Arnold Shircliffe — The Edgewater Beach Hotel Salad Boo

Chicago, Hotel Monthly Press, 1934. Cloth. A smart, signed copy of this illustrated salad recipe book from the Edgewater Beach Hotel. Signed by the author to the half title page. The fifth printing. In the publisher's decorative cloth binding.Offering an extensive variety of salad recipes, titled after the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, which is particularly famed for its salads. The hotel served many famous guests, including Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Charlie Chaplin.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and fifteen further colour plates. Collated, complete. Compiled by Arnold Shircliffe, who began as a supervisor of a dining car in 1902 and since then held jobs in the Army, hotels, clubs and restaurants, including the role of catering manager of the Edgewater Beach Hotel. In the original decorative cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities, most notably to the head and tail of spine. Slight darkening to the spine and with a mark to the tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with the odd spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .