OP: The Vest Pocket Vegetable Book

Hotel Monthly Press, 1906. Flexibound.

Known as the Hotel Monthly handbooks, these useful books are jammed full of advice, reference information, ideas, and concise recipes. Produced originally by John Willy—a Chicago publishing firm that, since the early 1880s, had supplied the hospitality industry with printed materials ranging from hotel registers to textbooks, magazines, and instructional works by leading chefs—this particular series was made to be easily handled and small enough to be slipped into an apron pocket.

Sturdily bound, they are of uniform size—roughly 8.5” x 3.25” and averaging 150 to 200 pages each. Happily, they are extremely durable, the paper stock tending to retain its whiteness and showing no sign of becoming brittle. 

Very Good, lightly soiled cover.