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Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good +; Dust Jacket Good condition. First edition, 153 pages. 8vo, red pictorial paper over yellow-gold boards. Foxing on page edges. Internally clean. Dust jacket chipped at spine, top, and lower edges; a few small tears to top and bottom edges. Now protected in mylar cover. Illustrations of California map on endpapers, design by Ward Ritchie. Robert Lawrence Balzer has been called the first serious wine journalist in the United Sates.
Seller: Gold Beach Books & Art Gallery LLC, Gold Beach, OR, U.S.A.
WINE] BALZER, ROBERT LAWRENCE. CALIFORNIA'S BEST WINES. LOS ANGELES, WARD RITCHIE PRESS, 1948.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DUST JACKET (UNCLIPPED; A FEW SMALL CHIPS); ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BOARDS; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON HALF TITLE PAGE BY VINTER AND CONTRIBUTOR HERMAN WENTE: "TO MR. WILLIAM URLOVIC, WHO APPRECIATES FINE CALIFORNIA WINES, PARTICULARLY OF THE LIVERMORE VALLEY."
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: x, 153 (1) pp. First Edition, 1948. Signed by the Author on Half-Title. Scarce Title. Price clipped. 2" closed tear top edge rear panel dj with small chips along top edge rear panel, and 1 along top edge spine, with some additional minor edge wear. Lightly age-toned text block edges, else, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean and white. 5.25" x 8.5". Pictorial cloth with red lettering to spine, and illustrated map on endpapers. Preface, 1. A Toast and A Tour; 2. Dinner in the Hearst Castle; 3. A Mecca for Bacchus; 4. Collectors' Recipes -- From Scotland to Hollywood; 5. 'Renascence' at Los Amigos Vineyards; 6. The Wine Room; 7. A Gentleman's Preoccupation; 8. Treasures of the Cellar; 9. Honor and Label; 10. Patience and a Million Dollars; 11. There's Plenty in a Name; 12. Korbl of Bohemia; 13. A Civilizing Influence; 14. Anna Held's Champagne Bath; 15. Wine for the Gods; index of recipes. Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.