WINE - Charles Walter BERRY. In Search of Wine, London, 1935, original red buckram. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden. With 6 other books of related interest including 3 PRESENTATION COPIES inscribed to Anthony Eden. (7)

WINE - Charles Walter BERRY (dates unknown).  In Search of Wine. A Tour of the Vineyards of France. With a thought to Bacchus in particular and a Humble Recognition of the Wisdom of Others. London: Constable & Co Ltd., 1935. 8vo (195 x 130mm). Half title, large folding map of "The Wine Districts of France" at the end. Original red buckram, spine lettered in gilt (spine faded, without a dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To Captain The Rt. Hon. R. Anthony Eden ... with the compliments & respect of the author, who when he read your kind letter of appreciation felt that all the work entailed (mentally & physically) was amply justified - + more so. Charles Berry. Flow Wine! Smile Woman! And the Universe is consoled!! 3.XII.35." With 6 other books of related interest including the same author's Viniana (London, "reprinted 1934", 8vo, original red buckram, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To The Rt. Hon. R. Anthony Eden ... with the author's thanks for the privilege. The old proverb says, An apple a day keeps the doctor away (to which the author would wish to add) for a day. But a glass of good wine for a very long time, so they say. Charles Berry, 8/11/36"), the same author's Tokay (London, Berry Bros. & Co., [n.d.], original buckram-backed boards, with a typed compliment slip from Mr Anthony Berry pasted to the front free endpaper, addressed to Anthony Eden, dated 28.5.76, stating, "I thought that you would like to have a bottle of the Tokay Essence following our telephone conversation last week and this is therefore being sent to you under separate cover. However, I am enclosing a copy of my uncle, Charles Walter Berry's booklet, which he wrote before the War. Please accept the bottle with the best wishes of us all here. Enc.") and Hugh R. Rudd's Hocks and Moselles (London, 1935, original cloth, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, with an inscription by the author to Anthony Eden including a biblical 'quote' ("... 'He restored the chief butler unto his butlership again ... But he hanged the chief baker.' Genesis XL. 21")). Provenance: Anthony Eden (five of the books with his old armorial bookplate). (7)