Wines Their Selection, Care and Service (signed)

Street, Julian

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1933

Beschreibung

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933 194 pp i-xx index with a frontis tipped- in B&W map of France showing wine-growing regions. Signed by Street with a dedication to Nunnally (Johnson), screenwriter, and his second wife, Marion .Julian Street ( 1879-1947) was a reporter, short story writer, novelist, travel writer, humorist, and food writer. His nonfiction books include Abroad at Home ), The Most Interesting American: A Close Range Study of Theodore Roosevelt, and Mysterious Japan. .He cowrote, with Booth Tarkington, The Country Cousin, a play that opened at New York's Gaiety Theatre in the fall of 1917. He published a novel, Rita Coventry in 1922 and was also the recipient of two O. Henry Awards for his short stories. He was known as an expert on wine and French cuisine. Text is clean, tight and unmarked , lightly yellowed. The map is scuffed along the lower edge. Purple boards with red stamping are bumped at extremities, have a fraction of the DJ still stuck to them. The flaps of the DJ are tucked into the text with an ad for The American Mercury on back flap. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Dedication By Author. Second Printing December 1933. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000746

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Wines Their Selection, Care and Service (...

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1933

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: Second Printing December 1933.