Andre L Simon 1877 (18 results)

First Edition. Very good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 15 pages : map ; 17 cm. Series: Wines of the world pocket library. Subjects: Wine and wine making; Wine; Wine industry; California. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 15 pages : map ; 17 cm. Series: Wines of the world pocket library. Subjects: Wine and wine making; Wine; Wine industry; Port. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 15 pages : map ; 17 cm. Series: Wines of the world pocket library. Subjects: Wine and wine making; Wine; Wine industry; Brandy. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 15 pages : map ; 17 cm. Series: Wines of the world pocket library. Subjects: Wine and wine making; Wine; Wine industry; Switzerland. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Spine sun-toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 15 pages : map ; 17 cm. Series: Wines of the world pocket library. Subjects: Wine and wine making; Wine; Wine industry; Champagne. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 15 pages : map ; 17 cm. Series: Wines of the world pocket library. Subjects: Wine and wine making; Wine; Wine industry; Switzerland. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 15 pages : map ; 17 cm. Series: Wines of the world pocket library. Subjects: Wine and wine making; Wine; Wine industry; Port. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 15 pages : map ; 17 cm. Series: Wines of the world pocket library. Subjects: Wine and wine making; Wine; Wine industry; Brandy. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Spine sun-toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 15 pages : map ; 17 cm. Series: Wines of the world pocket library. Subjects: Wine and wine making; Wine; Wine industry; Champagne. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 15 pages : map ; 17 cm. Series: Wines of the world pocket library. Subjects: Wine and wine making; Wine; Wine industry; California. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Spine and boards sun-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii,183 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Cookery Encyclopedias; Eggs as food; Game and game-birds; Gastronomy Encyclopedias; Poultry. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Spine and boards sun-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii,183 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Cookery Encyclopedias; Eggs as food; Game and game-birds; Gastronomy Encyclopedias; Poultry. 1 Kg.…

First edition hard back. The foot of the book has suffered from damp staining with the boards rubbed through and the dust wrapper with a ragged edge about 3 mm high, the rest of the dust wrapper is complete. Member of the P.B.F.A. WINES, BEERS & SPIRITS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 180 pp. Sound binding. 24 full-coloured plates & 8 decorated maps. Annotated endpaper showing shapes & sizes of French wine bottles in private cellar of an English country house.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back publisher's original apple green paper covers, black lettering to the spine. 6½'' x 3¾'' 96 printed pages of text. Tiny hint of tanning to closed page edges. Without any ownership markings Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with light soiling to lower panel, not price clipped 3/6. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. FOOD [Cuisine Française].…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, colour photographic lining papers. 4to. 11'' x 8½''. A classic of cookery, eating and drinking with 2000 definitions, 600 line drawings, and 64 colour plates throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with one small closed tear to the top of the spine, not price clipped. Member of the P.B.F.A. FOOD [Cuisine Française].…

A clean sound copy of the very scarce First Edition in the original publishers cloth though foxed to the foredges and inscribed to the free endpaper. Large Octavo. vii. 3-302 pp.plus advertisement leaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London: The Wine and Food Society, 1934 - 1962. Eighteen octavo volumes, uniformly bound in maroon buckram with leather title and volume spine labels, comprising a complete run of the first 116 issues of this landmark quarterly devoted to all things gastronomical. Andre Simon was, in the words of Hugh Johnson, "the charismatic leader of the English wine trade for almost all of the first half of the 20th century, and the grand old man of literate connoisseurship for a further 20 years", though his oblique writing style is said to have prompted the more analytical point-based wine review system later developed by Robert Parker. Each volume features essays on cooking, fine dining and wine, with period ads throughout. The wraps for each volume are bound in, with staining to the front wrap of a few volumes; chipping to the spine labels of a few volumes, with light rubbing and discoloration to cloth, but a handsomely bound run of this important periodical.…