By Request: An Autobiography by Simon, Andre L. [First Printing, Near Fine, Inscribed By Andre Simon To Robert Balzer, And With Signed Letter From Simon To Balzer) - 1957

Tokyo : Kenkyusha, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Very good copy in the original title-printed, stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. A rare copy. ; 117 pages; Description: v, 117p ; 19cm. Subjects: Japanese tea ceremony. Japan - Social life and customs.

London: Samson Low, Marston & Company, 1900. Octavo (22.8 x 15 cm.), 474, [2] pages. Illustrated with photographs by the author. All edges gilt. FIRST EDITION. A handsome and profusely illustrated survey of Ceylon and its tea industry, by a member of the Royal Asiatic Society and author of several other titles on the South Asian island nation, now identified as Sri Lanka. In very attractive gilt-stamped, white buckram.

New York: The Scientific American Publishing Company, 1919. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 232, [1]pp. Contemporary ownership signature on the front pastedown, fine in an attractive, very good or better pictorial dustwrapper with several small nicks and tears. Largely about non-alcoholic drinks, it does contain chapters on wine, mixed-drinks, ciders, and punches. Very scarce in jacket.

London: Newman Neame, 1953. First Edition, First Printing . Boards. Fine Book/Near Fine DJ. Wood Engravings By David Gentleman. 56 Pp. Beige Boards, Gilt. A Bright, Clean First Printing, From The Library Of Food And Wine Expert Robert L Balzer, A Friend Of Simon, And Inscribed To Balzer By Simon On The Front Endpaper. Boards Slightly Splayed, As Usual. Dj Clean And Complete, Just A Touch Of Wear At Tips And At Head And Heel Of Spine. Presentation Slip "With The Secretary's Compliments / The Food And Wine Society" Laid In Loosely.

London: Constable & Company, 1934. Second Edition, First Printing . Red Cloth. Near Fine Book/Very Good DJ. Frontispiece, Plates. Xv, 161 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged., First Printing Book Is Near Fine, Trace Of Rubbing At Corners. Dj Price Clipped But Otherwise Complete Except For Very Light Chipping At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips, Spine A Little Darkened. With, A Very Cordial May 18, 1939 Two Page Typed, Signed Letter From Berry To Balzer, Responding To Balzer's Letter Of May 6, Enclosing Berry's Brochure Of Burgundy Wines, Opining That At Present The 1929'S Are Excellent But The 1928'S Will Live Longer, Discussing California Wines And Robert L Stevenson's Writings, Quoting The Latter, And Ending "We Shall Be Very Pleased To See You Here, And Perhaps Arrange If You Are Agreeable To Crack A Bottle Or Two Over A Simple Luncheon." Also With A Folding Printed Menu For "Lunch At The Sign Of The Coffee Mill", 3 St. James's Street, S. W. 1 [London], With Typed… Read More

Tokyo : Kenkyusha, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Very good copy in the original title-printed, stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. A rare copy. ; 117 pages; Description: v, 117p ; 19cm. Subjects: Japanese tea ceremony. Japan - Social life and customs.

London: Newman Neame, 1953. First Edition, First Printing . Boards. Fine Book/Near Fine DJ. Wood Engravings By David Gentleman. 56 Pp. Beige Boards, Gilt. A Bright, Clean First Printing, From The Library Of Food And Wine Expert Robert L Balzer, A Friend Of Simon, And Inscribed To Balzer By Simon On The Front Endpaper. Boards Slightly Splayed, As Usual. Dj Clean And Complete, Just A Touch Of Wear At Tips And At Head And Heel Of Spine. Presentation Slip "With The Secretary's Compliments / The Food And Wine Society" Laid In Loosely.

London: Constable & Company, 1934. Second Edition, First Printing . Red Cloth. Near Fine Book/Very Good DJ. Frontispiece, Plates. Xv, 161 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged., First Printing Book Is Near Fine, Trace Of Rubbing At Corners. Dj Price Clipped But Otherwise Complete Except For Very Light Chipping At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips, Spine A Little Darkened. With, A Very Cordial May 18, 1939 Two Page Typed, Signed Letter From Berry To Balzer, Responding To Balzer's Letter Of May 6, Enclosing Berry's Brochure Of Burgundy Wines, Opining That At Present The 1929'S Are Excellent But The 1928'S Will Live Longer, Discussing California Wines And Robert L Stevenson's Writings, Quoting The Latter, And Ending "We Shall Be Very Pleased To See You Here, And Perhaps Arrange If You Are Agreeable To Crack A Bottle Or Two Over A Simple Luncheon." Also With A Folding Printed Menu For "Lunch At The Sign Of The Coffee Mill", 3 St. James's Street, S. W. 1 [London], With Typed… Read More

18, Strand, London: Samuel Leigh, 1828. Twelfth edition, enlarged. Small octavo, frontispiece, pp lviii, 300. + two page bookseller's catalogue, a few small line drawings in the text, edges untrimmed, signs of use throughout, some foxing and staining, recently bound in a simple red cloth, lightly decorated. [With many manuscript additions, some merely altering a printed menu, many written on blank leaves, and others on scraps of paper, tipped-in. Notable are Jams, Cabinet Pudding, Suet Pudding, Soda Cake, Raspberry and Mulberry Vinegar, tomato sauce, cooking scarlet and French beans, boiling vegetables, Mulberry Syrup, Mince Pies, Eloise (?) Pudding, Gooseberry Wine, Peas Pudding, Russian Ox Tongues, Noyeau, Mayonnaise Sauce. Other domestic hints are given - directions for using a frying pan, tooth powder, blacking, cleaning floor cloths, invisible ink, toothache cure. One recipe for plum cakes is signed Mary Buckley, and written on the reverse of a scrap of paper addressed to Sir George Lewis,… Read More

1840. Rare "Temperance" Broadside in the Style of a Court Document [Broadside]. [Temperance]. [Great Britain]. The ---- Day of 18 ----. This is to Our Sheriff of Sheriffdoms, Steward of Stewardries, Bailiffs of Regalities, & All Others, The Officers and Executors of the Law, To Interpose Their Power and Authority to Assist Us in the Execution of This Our Decree, It Being Conformable to Law. Lincoln, England: R.E. Leary, Printer and Bookbinder, [c.1840]. 10" x 7-1/2" broadside, woodcut royal arms flanked with the initials of Queen Victoria at head of text. Light toning, faint horizontal fold, a few minor creases. A well-preserved item. $350. * A parody of a temperance poster in the form of a sentencing document issued "at our court, the day and date above mentioned, at the Cockhead, near the Barrel Bung, adjacent to the Gin Cask, Before us-Sir Thirsty Tippler, Sir Mathew Malt, and Sir David Drynall." The text reads (in part): "Whereas it is humbly proved and shown to us by our beloved brother Sir John… Read More