H Warner Allen Intro (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. A frontline reporter in the First World War, Herbert Warner Allen published this historical survey of wine in literature in 1951. Tracing a line from Homer's Pramnian wine and Horace's Falernian vintage through Chaucer's boozy pilgrims and the monastic vintners of the Middle Ages, he arrives at the 18th-century epicure Brillat-Savarin and Edgar Allan Poe's deadly Cask of Amontillado.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. A smart first edition, second impression of this detailed tour of the vineyards of France from wine expert, Charles Walter Berry. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, second impression. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. With a large fold-out map to the rear of the text. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive guide to the vineyards of France, being a tour of the entire country. With chapters on Reims, Champagne, Chablis, Burgundy, Bordeaux, Armagnac, Valence, Beaujolais, and many other regions. Includes a thought to Bacchus and a letter-preface by H. Warner Allen, a British journalist. Written by Charles Walter Berry, a British wine expert. In the original full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor wear to the extremities and fading to the spine. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities. Sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. Light loss to the head of the spine and front panel sympathetically repaired with tape. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…