rainbird searle (16 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, toning/yellowing and creasing.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition thus. Octavo hardback. 206 pp. Black & white illustrations by Ronald Searle. Very Good + condition in Very Good+, unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. RONALD SEARLE (illustratore). 1st Edition. Plum Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 220 x 140 mm approx. 206 pp. Illustrated title, chapter head vignettes and 9 full page line drawings by Searle in his inimitable style + Two full page maps. First published in 1963 by Evans under the title "The Pocket Book of Wine" the book offered is a first printing under the new title 1973. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book - mild general shelf wear, ink gift insc. to free front end paper. Dust Jacket- minor shelf rubbing, price clipped. No other notable defects to book or jacket).

Hardcover. Revised Edition. 206 pages. 22.5 x 14 cm. After a sensible introduction on the service of wine, the vineyards of Europe and the rest of the world are discussed fully but not laboriously. A keynote of the book is that as much attention is paid to 'little' wines as to the great ones. No artificial snobbery is tolerated, and a number of prejudices are disposed of with decisiveness and wit. Illustrated by the fabulous Ronald Searle. Previous owner's signature on the front free end paper. Pages lightly toned. Boards clean. Dust wrapper lightly toned. In protective mylar cover. Purple cloth covered boards. Very good, in very good dust wrapper.

Condizione: Très bon état. in-8, percaline éditeur, jaquette en couleurs, 206 pp., 2 cartes, index. Edition originale ornée de 15 dessins burlesques par l'artiste anglais récemment disparu. Très bon état.

A VERY GOOD COPY IN A GLASSINE PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. NEAT INSCRIPTION ON FEP.

Illus. by RONALD SEARLE, index; 206pp. orig. cloth,

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. ronald searle (illustratore). 206 pages. d/j plastic protected.

proof copy of revised edition 206pp ills.by searle VG+ (yellow paper wrappers w.titling to spine only,sl.rubbed and soiled,spine creased and sunned,minor wear to extrems.,spine cracked w.separation starting at middle section).

revised edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 206pp., b/w ills., maps, glossary, bibliog., index,

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Ronald Searle (illustratore). A superb copy of George Rainbird's expanded history and compendium of wine, comically illustrated throughout by Ronald Searle. A revised and expanded edition of George Rainbird's 'Book of Wine', a comprehensive discussion of wines from around the world.The first thus of this expanded edition.Illustrated with cartoons throughout by Ronald Searle.Searle was a leading English satirical cartoonist, best remembered for creating St. Trinian's School.In the original unclipped dustwrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the spine. A couple of very faint marks to the rear board. Dustwrapper is a little edge worn with some light marks, including a ring mark to the rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean Fine. book.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Ronald Searle (illustratore). First edition. A guide to wine by George Rainbird and illustrated by Ronald Searle. The first edition of this work. With the bookplate of Hugo Dunn-Meynell to the front pastedown. Meynell was responsible for rejuvenating the International Food and Wine Society. He was a businessman and writer who loved food and wine. This work discusses wines from around the world, with chapters on French wine; Spanish wine; Portugal and Madeiran wine; Mediterranean Wines; and wines of South Africa, Australia and the Americas. In the original full cloth binding and held in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart with bumping to the head and tail of spine. Some slight fading to the head and tail of spine. Dustwrapper is price-clipped. Bumping to the head and tail of wraps. Slight age toning to the edges of wraps. Bookplate to front pastedown of Hugo Dunn-Meynell. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. The odd spot to foredge. Very Good Indeed. book.

London: Michael Joseph Limited, (1973). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt spine. Price-clipped dustjacket. (206pp.). With 14 b/w illusts. by Ronald Searle, 2 maps and 1 in-text illust.

FIRST EDITION THUS 1973, a revised edition of the Pocket Book of Wine. LIMITED to 50 copies SIGNED by GEORGE RAINBIRD and RONALD SEARLE, the limitation is handwritten in ink on the half-title with the ink signatures below. 8vo, approximately 220 x 130 mm, 8½ x 5¼ inches, pages: 1-206, illustrated title page plus 15 illustrations and 2 maps, original publisher's purple cloth with gilt lettering and 2 small black floral designs to spine, in dustwrapper. Binding very slightly bumped at head of spine, a touch of fading at head of spine, small pale stain to outer margin of page 178, tiny closed tear neatly repaired to outer margin of page 12, hardly noticeable, bookseller's small ticket to last pastedown. A very good copy in very good dustwrapper, price-clipped with minute chip to foot of spine, now in removable dustwrapper protector. See Gabler, Wine into Words page 216 No.G33290. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.