Dinner at Omar Khayyam's.
San Francisco: Hooper Publishing Company, [1957]. Hardcover. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth with white spine lettering, dust jacket. ix, 150pp. Fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Item #49144
Superb, bright and tight eighth printing of this popular cookbook first published by Viking Press in 1944 -- inscribed and signed large and bold in black ink on front flyleaf: "To my friends / The Deane Malotts / With the best wishes / of / George M. Mardikian." Mardikian (1903-77) was an Armenian-American chef, restaurateur and author who opened the famous Omar Khayyam's in San Francisco in 1938 and was responsible for popularizing Armenian food in the U.S. Front pastedown bears elegant bookplate of the recipient, Deane Waldo Malott (1898-1996), a noted academic administrator and educator who served as assistant dean at Harvard Business School, chancellor of University of Kansas and president of Cornell University.
Price: $75.00