ELSIE DE WOLFE'S Recipes FOR SUCCESSFUL DINING

New York: D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY, 1935. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards, black title. Good. 102 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Elsie de Wolfe was known for her taste - taste in design, taste in travel, taste in food, and taste in how to live life. As she state in the beginning of this book: "This is not a cookery book at all. It is rather a selection of dishes known and unknown - the results of many years of traveling in many lands and in many out-of-the-way place; of making friends with interesting and interested maîtres d'hôtels; of amusing adventures, instructive in many ways that were not culinary and better than any lesson in geography I have ever had in school. It is a book, I hope, that may prove of aid to the distracted hostess. Includes: Advice for Serving Wine, Decorating the Table, Menus, and Recipes. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. Page 91 is torn with half the page missing. Boards heavily rubbed.