the Book of the Wine Label. by PENZER, N. M:

Home and Van Thal, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1947. First Edition. 144 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Mild sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild water stains and droplets to boards. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Moderate water staining to panels. Heavy tanning to spine.

Home and Van Thal, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1947. First Edition. 143 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Clipped jacket has heavy wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.

Home and Van Thal, 1947. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover book, text is fine; covers are near fine to fine; no dust wrapper; 144 pages, 27 black-and-white illustrations; bibliography

Home & Van Thal, London, 1947. 144pp + 28 b/w plates. Cloth boards, scuffed, rubbed and bumped. Top and bottom of spine and corneers frayed. Contents little fingered and shaken. 25x20cms.

London: Home & Van Thal, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good++ with front hinge starting and previous owner's stamp on bottom edge of front endpapers in Very Good dust jacket, chips and bites to extremities.