(Wine Writing) Andre Simon. In the Twilight

Illus. with author portrait. Jacket. First Edition. London: Michael Joseph, 1969.

André Simon was a French-born wine merchant, gourmet, and prolific writer about wine. Hugh Johnson describes him as "the charismatic leader of the English wine trade for almost all of the first half of the 20th century, and the grand old man of literate connoisseurship for a further 20 years". He was also a renowned gastronome, who wrote a 9-volume encyclopedia of gastronomy. Here he finally writes about himself and his lustrous career. 

Foxing to upper front jacket panel, else very good.

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