Illus. with color drawings by Blonder. Jacket. First Edition. NY: Clarkson Potter, [1998].

Inscribed & signed by San Francisco Chinese restaurateur Cecilia Chiang to Dai-shih-fu (James Nassikas) on the half-title. Chiang owned The Mandarin, San Francisco's first upscale Chinese restaurant, and Nassikas was a hotelier and gastronome who opened the Stanford Court Hotel in San Francisco in 1972. Fine.