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Chapman HALL Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST NO DJ. author INSCRIPTION.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1927.. First edition. 8vo. 246, (2) pp. Publisher's dark rose cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. 13 black and white photographic plates, some two to a page, plus a folding map to the rear. Mild bumping to the edges, sunning to the spine and the top edges of the boards, some light foxing, else very good. An account of a wine tour through the regions of south western France.

New York [1927]: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. First Edition, Third Printing . Green Cloth. Very Good + Book/Very Good + DJ. 263 Pp. Journal Of A Wine Tour Through France. One Of Two Varieties Of Jacket, This One With 5 1/4" Space Between Bottom Of Author's Name And Top Of Publisher's Name On Spine; With All Green Printing On Front Panel And Spine Panel Displaced To The Left, And Catalog Of Nine G. B. Stern Books, Last One Published In 1929, On Rear Flap. Light Wear Mostly At Corners, 1/4" V-Chip At Top Of Spine Affecting The Last Three Letters In "Bouquet", And A 3/8" V-Chip At Bottom Of Spine, Jacket Unclipped But No Price, A Closed 1/2" Tear At Top Of Front Panel And Another At Bottom. Bookplate Of Food And Wine Expert Robert L. Balzer, With His Name Surrounded By Red Vines.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. Octavo (18.5 x 13.7 cm.), xii, [2], 263, [1] pages. Thirteen black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Stated Third Printing. Record of "a motor journey through the wine country of France, and adventure devoted chiefly to Bordeaux and Burgundy" (from the jacket flap). Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890-1973) was the author of more than a dozen novels and short story collections. Clean and sound in pale green cloth-covered boards, decorated in yellow and oxblood. In an attractively designed dust jacket, with an illustration by "Herbert...?" printed in red, green, black, and yellow. Some small edge chips to dust jacket, and some color bleeding visible on the verso of the jacket. Still, near fine, in a very good dust jacket.