Andre L. Simon — What About Wine?

London, Newman Neame, 1953 . First edition. Cloth. A charming guide to wine appreciation and oenology, with woodcut illustrations throughout. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This volume is a first edition. This work is a comprehensive guide to wine and oenology, written in the author's distinctive table-talk style, with wood engravings by David Gentleman, including a woodcut frontispiece, with numerous half-tone illustrations throughout.André L. Simon (1877–1970) French-born wine merchant, gourmet, and prolific writer about oenology. He was instrumental in founding the Wine & Food Society and authored numerous works on wine and food pairing. 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". In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. With normal age toning, especially to the perimeters of the boards. One or two handling marks to boards, and slight bumping to extremities. Slight offsetting and the odd very faint spot to endpapers. Dust wrapper, generally smart. Age toning, heavier towards the spine, with the odd spot. Slight rubbing and the scattered handling marks. The odd small closed tear, with one or two very small chips. internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, slightly age toned with the odd spot to fore edge. Very Good . Ill.: David Gentleman. Very Good/Very Good.