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243. SIMENON, Georges. Portrait of maigret. Lausanne. [no date].
£498
mounted framed and glazed personalised postcard with Simenon’s Avenue des Figuiers Lausanne address with an ink drawing by Simenon of his character maigret.
The drawing is inscribed by Simenon “A miss mary holburn(?) sincerely Jules maigret”.
FinELY BoUnD FoR ASPREY
244. SIMON, André Louis. The noble Grapes and the Great Wines of France. new York: Drukkerij Holland n.V. for MaGraw Hill Book Company, inc., [circa 1957].
£350
4to (261 x 183mm). Full crushed blue morocco gilt for Asprey, upper and lower boards with single gilt-rule borders, upper board with gilt block of grape-vine, spine gilt in compartments and lettered in 2, gilt-ruled board- edges, turn-ins densely roll-tooled in gilt, cockerell-marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; pp. xii, 180; colour-printed portrait frontispiece and 23 colour-printed plates printed by henry Stone and Son Ltd from plates by Austin miles Ltd after Percy hennell, 8 maps printed in red, green and black by Drukkerij holland n.v. after Asgeir Scott, text decorations and vignettes after Scott, title printed in red and black; one corner slightly bumped, spine and outer parts of boards slightly darkened, some occasional and light spotting, nonetheless a very good and finely-bound copy; provenance: gift inscription dated christmas 1962 on front flyleaf.
First edition, second impression (the first impression was published by mcGraw-hill in 1957). Following education, military service, and an apprenticeship with the champagne house Pommery and Greno (of Rheims), in his native France, Simon was sent to London in 1902 as Pommery and Greno’s agent. Wth the exception of service in France during World War i (for part of which he was attached to the British Army, winning the military medal), Simon remained in England and (although he retained French citizenship), ‘he [...] loved England: he had his own cricket field in the grounds of his Sussex house, and he believed that English food was as good as the best anywhere, especially when partnered with French wines’. A founder of the Wine Trade club (and chairman of the Education committee, in which capacity he build up their library), the Saintsbury club, and the Wine and Food Society, Simon ‘was regarded as the leading authority in the world on wine and gastronomy, although he himself never learned to cook’ (oDnB) — as well as a preeminient blibliographer of gastronomy — and enjoyed remarkable good health throughout his life, possibly attributable to ‘his lifelong habit of opening a bottle of champagne at eleven every morning’ (loc. cit.).
in his preface to The noble Grapes and the Great Wines of France, Simon explains his purpose thus: ‘one might well ask if there is any need for another book about French wines, and should there be such a need, one might well ask if i can possibly have anything new to say. i have not, but it does not matter. This book is entirely different from any of the sixty-odd wine books which i have written during the past fifty years. it is a book unlike all the books which have been published so far about the wines of France. Why? Because it is the first book which gives a true picture of some of the wines made from different sorts of grapes. it is the first time in the history of the wine trade and of the book trade that you will be able to see the exact size, shape and colour of the Cabernets, Pinots and other grapes, as well as the exact colour of the wines made from each of the main varieties of grapes’ (p. ix). This is one of a small number of copies of the second impression which were bound up in full crushed blue morocco for Asprey.
Cf. Gabler G37110 (1st impression). 246
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245. SMITH, Richard. olympische Spiele münchen 1972. original lithograph in colours, printed by Edition olympia, Germany, 1971. 1010 x 640 mm.
£350
246. SNICKET, Lemony (author). A Series of Unfortunate Events: Books 1-13. London; Egmont . 2001-2006.
£325
8vo. 13 volumes; original brightly coloured pictorial boards; volumes 5, 6 and 7 with their original wrap-around advertising bands as issued, volume 8 complete with the reversible dustwrapper, being the sole volume issued in a dustwrapper; illustrated throughout in black-and-white; mint copies of the complete set.
First English editions of this extraordinary epic which was first issued in the U.S. by harpercollins. The titles in this series are: The Bad Beginning; The Reptile Room; The Wide Window; The Miserable Mill; The Austere Academy; The Ersatz Elevator; The Vile Village; The Hostile Hospital; The Carnivorous Carnival; The Slippery Slope; The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril and The End.
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