Andre l simon editor (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 719pp. Maps, numerous color illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Handsome and tight later (7th) printing of this famed overview.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. [1941 & 1942]. Two volumes, octavo, not illustrated, pp viii, 126; viii, 134, very slightrly used internally, paperbacks, covers slightly marked and worn. From the library of Alan Davidson/. [ [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Laos. While living in Tunis, his wife asked him to look for a cookbook on fish because she did not recognize any of the local varieties. Not being able to find one he wrote one himself. The original manuscript was copied with a stencil machine. A copy reached the British cooking guru Elizabeth David, who passed it on to Penguin Books, which published it in 1972 as Mediterranean Seafood. This was followed by Seafood Of South East Asia (1979) and North Atlantic Seafood (1979), for which he travelled throughout the region, gathering thousands of recipes from Portugal to Iceland.].…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good +. Printed paper wraps. Part set of seven different sections as follows ; I Sauces 1939 ( Good - spine splitting but binding tight, sl mark to cover, some light foxing ). II Fish 1942 first reprint ( Fair - Both covers detached, lacks spine, rear cover lacks one corner, covers held to contents by clear cellotape, contents clean and tight ). III Vegetables 1941 ( similar condition to part II, small splits to rear cover edges ). IV Cereals 1943. First edition ( Near VG - Spine a little creased with small split to top, cover creased, moderately foxed. Contents clean and tight ) V. Fruit 1942 First edition ( VG - some light foxing to covers else clean and tight ) VI Birds and Their Eggs 1944 First edition. ( VG - Covers clean and sound save slight loss to spine tail, small split to rear cover edge. Contents clean, tight ) VII Meat 1945 First edition ( VG - A little creasing to covers else clean and tight, slight losses at spine ends, contents clean and tight ). All volumes have previous owners signature in prelims. Heavy lot weighing c 2000g when packed, and thus extra postage ( at cost ) will be requested to cover shortfall from default postage quotation for 1000g for both first class UK mail ( second class not affected ) and all overseas orders. Quote can be given if requested. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Viii, 185 Pp. First Printing, "First Published" With 1944 Date On Title And Copyright Pages. Softcover. Light Wear And Slight Browning To Covers. No Marks. Robert Balzer's Copy Although Not Marked As Such.

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", page 248 Wine into Words 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 AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…