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Product Description

The first edition of this autobiography from the renowned French food and wine writer Andre Simon, with a signed letter from the author.
The first edition, first impression.
Includes a signed letter from the author, tipped in to the front free endpaper.
The letter is addressed to George Becknell, inviting him to dinner.
The letter is typed on paper addressed from 'The Wine and Food Society', where Andre Simon was president.
Illustrated with a monochrome photographic frontispieceAn autobiography from Andre L.
Simon, the renowned French gourmet and food/wine writer, recounting Normandy in the 1880s, the champagne trade in the Edwardian era, and more.
In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.
In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.
Externally, lovely.
The odd spot to the endpapers, with letter from the author tipped in to the front free endpaper.
The wrap is generally smart with sunning to the spine, scattered spotting, and light edge wear, including the odd small closed tear which has been repaired with archival tape to the verso.
Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages.
Near Fine

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