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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Hardcover in good condition. Removable plastic covered unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is marked and sunned. Edges are creased and torn. Board corners and spine ends are bumped. Spine is cocked. Page block is lightly foxed, with the occasional spots of foxing within. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Used.

LIMITED EDITION OF 265 COPIES 1969, THIS IS COPY NUMBER 71, SIGNED BY ANDRE SIMON AND FINELY BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF. Introduction by ANDRE SIMON. Thick 4to, approximately 270 x 180 mm, 10½ x 7 inches, 60 colour plates and 21 maps, pages: 1-719, Glossary, Bibliography and Index after page 698, full wine colour morocco with central onlay of bunch of grapes in gilt and leaves in colour to upper cover, gilt title between raised bands to spine, decorated gilt vine to inner dentelles (turn ins), marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, bookbinder's name in gilt to lower dentelles. A fine copy housed in a white cloth clamshell box as issued. Book in fine condition, the clamshell box with a few pale spots and slight rubbing at corner tips. "Andre Simon bibliophile, gourmet, wine connoisseur, historian and writer is unrivalled in his contribution to the knowledge of wines. Simon collected wine books all his life and his collection was one of the finest ever assembled", Wine into Words page 248 by James M. Gabler. Contents: Wines of France and Wines of North Africa by Andre Simon; Wines of Italy by CYRIL RAY; Wines of Germany by ANDRE SIMON, S.F. HALLGARTEN and H. ARNTZ; Wines of Portugal by H. WARNER ALLEN; Wines of Spain by GEORGE RAINBIRD; Other wines of the West by ANTHONY HOGG; Wines of Australia and New Zealand, and Wines of South Africa by ANDRE SIMON; Wines of the Americas by JOHN N. HUTCHINSON. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.