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London: Home & Van Thal. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Price-clipped DJ lightly rubbed and worn at edges and corners, .

Home and Van Thal, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1947. First Edition. 144 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Mild sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild water stains and droplets to boards. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Moderate water staining to panels. Heavy tanning to spine.

Home and Van Thal, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1947. First Edition. 143 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Clipped jacket has heavy wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.

Home and Van Thal, 1947. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover book, text is fine; covers are near fine to fine; no dust wrapper; 144 pages, 27 black-and-white illustrations; bibliography

Home & Van Thal, London, 1947. 144pp + 28 b/w plates. Cloth boards, scuffed, rubbed and bumped. Top and bottom of spine and corneers frayed. Contents little fingered and shaken. 25x20cms.

London: Home & Van Thal, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good++ with front hinge starting and previous owner's stamp on bottom edge of front endpapers in Very Good dust jacket, chips and bites to extremities.

London: Home & Van Thal, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg. To Mrs. Wm. B. Munro from the author. A slight affection of the Kindness and hospitality so freely given, and congenial conversation so richly enjoyed. N. M. Penzer, Pasadena Feb. 1948. " Quarto. 143 (1)pp., 27 plates. Original illustrated dustjacket, blue lettering on spine, over brown-red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece. "The scope of this book is much greater than its title may suggest... Tracing the idea of naming a bottle or jug of wine from the Ancient World, the author deals in turn with the 17th century wine-jugs and the evolution of the wine-bottle and glass decanter... Mention should be made of the illustrations on which the utmost care and expert knowledge has been bestowed." (Publisher). Covering the evolution of the wine-label, the silver wine-label, Battersea Enamels, Sheffield plate, and the classifications of designs. Alphabetical list of names and notes on the lesser known wines with a bibliography… Read More