The San Francisco Cliff House

Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2009 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Square quarto. 10¼ x 10¼ inches. 223pp. Profusely illustrated with historic photographs. Bibliography, index. Blue cloth lettered in white. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The definitive history of San Francisco's famous Cliff House, from its beginnings in 1863 through the two-year, multimillion-dollar restoration completed in October of 2004. Filled with hundreds of historic photographs it covers the whole history- the building's survival of destructive storms, earthquakes, fires, two closures, several restorations, and government decisions. Includes several recipes of some of the more popular dishes served in the Cliff House restaurant over the decades. Written by Mary Germain Hountalas, who operated the Cliff house in partnership with her husband, from 1973 until its closure in 2020. .