Drink by Simon Andre, First Edition (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 270 pages, cover rubbed, bumped and creased and marked, commiserate with age. Size: 4vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 272pp., Illustrated. Boards very lightly soiled, corners bumped, else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Ex-James Gabler. *Gabler* G38960.

1st Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 272 pages. Subjects: Drinking vessels English. Libations. 20th century texts; drinking. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. 272pp. HARDCOVER Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. Attractive d/w is present & complete, but has some edgewear top/bottom & closed tear. D/w will be improved where possible & supplied in protective sleeve. Will appear smart when work completed. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. Book.

1st Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 272 pages. Subjects: Drinking vessels English. Libations. 20th century texts; drinking. 1 Kg.

Cloth/Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Frontispiece (illustrator). First American Edition. 201 pp. First American edition, usuing English sheets of the First British edition [ a revised edition was published in England also in 1930]. Worn at edges, paper covered boards frayed at all edges, cloth frayed at top and bottom of spine, front hinge cracked, white spine lettering with some losses but still readable. Signed by Andre L Simon on front endpaper. from the library of wine expert Robert L. Balzer, although not marked as such and without his usual bookplate. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Jacket sadly a bit tatty, loss to top and bottom of spine and corners, slightly scuffed and soiled. Previous owners inscription on ffep, not price clipped. Internally clean tight and square. 272pp. A good copy of this charming and witty book on the history and pleasures of Drink and everything relating to it.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Label, stamp or embossed stamps of owner at start of book. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 272pp., Illustrated. Spine ends lightly bumped, near fine in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with edges chipped and torn. The Pleasures of Life Series.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Ziegler (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce first edition of this illustrated anthology of wine and food, edited by Louis Golding and Andre L. Simon. First edition. Illustrated throughout. An anthology of writings on food and wine, arranged into sections on hors-d'oeuvre, entrees, roast, and dessert, with commentary on wines throughout. This volume provides a collection of writings from the history of asparagus, porridge or prunes, a July menu, and the Englishman and his liver, to fine champagnes. Edited by Louis Golding, an English writer, and Andre Simon, a French-born wine merchant, gourmet, and prolific writer about wine. Illustrated by Ziegler. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor wear to the extremities and the odd mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. No. 334 of 750 copies. Large 8vo. [viii], 196, [i], ill. Signed by Author(s).

, xvi 1-201 [3] pages, 12 plates including illustrated colour frontispiece by Daumier, forwarded by Maurice Healy, First Edition , the cover is lightly rubbed and marked, knocks along its edges, two tiny chips along the front joint with no loss, back board has had a strengthening repair to a crease, light foxing on the end papers, untrimmed, the contents are clean and in very good condtion, the book is in good condition , quarter bound in faux vellum and marbled paper, gilt titles to the spine, gilt top edge , octavo 23.5 x 15cm Hardback ISBN:

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited First Edition. No. 686 of 750 limitation. 4to. Minor ding and wear. Otherwise fine. DJ with trivial edgewear.

First edition, #588 of 750 copies. First edition, #588 of 750 copies. Illustrated. [xii], 196, [1] pp. Printed at the Curwen Press. 1 vols. 4to. Unzelman p. 132 Crimson cloth. Fine in damaged dustjacket. Bookplate of William Wreden Illustrated. [xii], 196, [1] pp. Printed at the Curwen Press. 1 vols. 4to.

Hard Cover. First Edition. (London: Constable & Co. Ltd. 1929). First UK Edition. Signed Limited Edition. Number 147 of 300 "special" copies. Signed by Andre Simon. 8vo. Quarter cream vellum over marbled paper boards. Colour frontispiece after Bouchot, plus 11 black and white plates. A fine copy (clean and un-marked with a bookseller's ticket to the front paste-down). None of the usual soiling to the vellum which is really bright and un-marked. In the original publisher's slipcase which is a bit rubbed and marked, with some tape residue (from an old repair) to the lower joint. The book itself is in fine condition. No inscriptions. At the time of listing I can find no other other example of this book on the www in the original slip-case. A superior example. "Founder and long-time president of the International Wine and Food Society, Simon authored many definitive works, including authoritative bibliographies and a multi-volume Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy. In both his life and his writings, he "taught people to enjoy wine with food, trying to encourage hotels, restaurants, chefs and others to incorporate flair and taste and imagination in presentation of foods" (New York Times). Photographs/scans available upon request. Signed by Author.