Request Autobiography by Simon Andre, Signed (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Blue cloth with gilt spine slabel. Fore-edge of dust-jacket with some spotting, otherwise near fine.Ex libris David and Diana Burns, with a presentation inscription to him from the author (dated 1964). Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Hardback Edition. 255 x 170mm. pp. 180. English text. Flat-signed first hardback edition of 'By Request: An Autobiography By Andre L, Simon'. Black and white photographic illustrations. Bound in original blue boards. Housed in blue and cream dust jacket. A somewhat worn copy of this interesting book with cocking to spine and some toning to endpages and edges. Boards show some mottling, and dust jacket has some chips and closed tears. Binding strong. No underlining. Dust jacket protected with removable mylar cover. A worn, but signed copy. See images. SIGNED.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. SIMON, Andre INSCRIBED on FFEP [180] pp. The Wine And Food Society 1957 10" x 6 5/8" André Simon (28 February 1877 5 September 1970) was a French-born wine merchant, gourmet, and prolific writer about wine. Hugh Johnson describes him as "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". Inscribed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of Andre Simon's autobiography, with a signed letter from the author. Flat signed by the author to the front free endpaper, with a tipped in signed letter to the half title, dated 1957, reading 'My dear Walter Allen, thank you so much for your very kind gift! Please accept this latest (not the last yet!) book of mine with my best wishes, yours Andre L Simon'.The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates. Collated, complete.The autobiography of André Simon, a French-born wine merchant, writer, and one of the foremost authorities on wine in 20th-century Britain. In 1933, he founded the Wine and Food Society to cultivate a broader understanding of good food and wine, shaping modern wine culture in the English-speaking world, and publishedthe influential A Concise Encyclopedia of Gastronomy. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with a touch of fading to back strip. Inscription to front free endpaper, letter pasted to half title. Dust wrapper lacking back strip, with front and rear wraps and flyleaves all present, but detached from one another. Significant chipping and closed tears to wrap perimeters, with handling marks to wraps, most concentrated to tail of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with the odd spot. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.