request autobiography von simon andre (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1957. Reprint. 180 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Green Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor Dustjacket. Photographs (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. 180 Pp.First Printing, 1957. Hardcover. A Fine Book, Inscribed As A Gift From Dudley Sommers In 1965. Sommers Was Author Of "Haldane Of Cloan". Dust Jacket Worn, Chipped And Torn, Lacking Top 1/3 Of Spine Panel, Front Panel Completely Detached Along Front Spine Edge.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xii,180pp, illustrated, edges and endpapers browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, blue cloth, stained on rear board, Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st UK Edition. 180 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white plates throughout. Previous owner's signature on the ffep. Page edges are lightly spotted on the head edges. Bound in green-blue cloth with gilt titles and blue accent on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges. Lightly scuffed. Lightly faded on the spine. 1ST UK EDITION. VG/- - Size: 6 1/2 x 10. Book.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.

Tall hardback, 8vo. 10 x 6.25 inches. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light blue endpapers. In Dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW tear to rear edge of spine, small chips to corners and spine ends, some spots to bottom edge on front. In protective sleeve.) A couple of minor handling marks to cloth. Author?s inscription to front endpaper ?To Valerie Thornton, with all good wishes, Andre L. Simon, Christmas 1957.? Inside pages all very clean and tight. Plates all tissue guarded. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 180pp. With 6 B&W illustrations including frontis portrait. (2 are on one plate.).