OP: A Treasury of Great Recipes (signed)

Ampersand Press, Inc., 1965. Padded hardcover. Very Good Minus. Signed, first printing. A highly popular, suave movie and TV actor, Vincent Price (1911–1993) was known for his thrillers and horror films, such as Diary of a Madman, The House on Haunted Hill, Theater of Blood, and The Fly. Another generation might remember him for his narration of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video or his last role as the inventor in 1990’s Edward Scissorhands.  Beyond acting, Price was known as a skilled painter, an accomplished cook, and a globe-trotting connoisseur of good food. Written with his second wife, Mary, A Treasury of Great Recipes—published in 1965 in a luxurious edition with padded, gold stamped covers and printed on heavy tan paper—is a tribute to the western world’s great restaurants, including legendary or now-vanished establishments such as Fernand Point’s Le Pyramide in France, Lüchow’s in New York, and Scandia in Los Angeles.  For anyone with an interest in the development of fine dini