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THE NOBLE GRAPES AND THE GREAT WINES OF FRANCE.
by SIMON, Andre L.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, New York and Toronto, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd, 1957.. FIRST EDITION 1957, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY ANDRE SIMON TO MAURICE KIDD on the half-title: "For Maurice Kidd who knows and who loves good wine as much as I do! Andre L. Simon Christmas 1957". Bookplate of Maurice Kidd Writer to Her Majesty's Signet on verso front endpaper. 4to, approximately 260 x 180 mm, 10¼ x 7¼ inches, 24 full page colour photographs by Percy Hennell showing mainly grapes, but also vineyards, bottles, glasses, 8 coloured maps and decorations by Asgeir Scott, pages: xii, 180 including index and glossary, bound in the original publisher's quarter cream parchment and burgundy cloth sides, small gilt vignette to upper cover, gilt lettered spine, top edges yellow, coloured photo endpapers of wine bottles, candle and glass, in dustwrapper with the same image. Tiny lightly darkened area at head and tail of spine, very little pale foxing to fore-edges, small closed tear to lower edge of plate page 132, neatly repaired on blank verso, 1 or 2 faint fox spots to a few margins, otherwise a very good clean tight copy in good plus DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, small piece (25 x 15 mm, 1" x ½") missing from lower corner of upper panel, tiny chips to head of spine and corners, tail of spine slightly rubbed, small closed tear next to top of upper fold, old sellotape removed leaving slight mark on front inner flap). Gabler, Wine into Words, page 256, G37110: the photographs "reproduce the exact size, shape and colour of the grapes". MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47420
- Title
- THE NOBLE GRAPES AND THE GREAT WINES OF FRANCE.
- Author
- SIMON, Andre L.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, New York and Toronto, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd, 1957.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- wine viticulture grapes wine making history Bordeaux Burgundy champagne cotes du rhone loire alsace brandy vintages medoc Signed Inscribed France
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