Wine & Champagne Books for Sale

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WB49 Napa Stories is a coffee table book with 312 pages published in 2001 at a price of $55. . It has a huge number of photos and stories about the Napa Valley folks including Rhodes, Tcheslistcheff, Eisel, Trefethern, Barrett, Winiarski, and many more. Hardcover 10” x 12”. $23

WB50 Wines of the World is a 392 page coffee table book. Extremely well illustrated with hundreds of photos of the bottles of wine described. The book was published in 1992 by Tiger Books International, London. 9.5” x 12”. $17

I am selling my library of wine and Champagne books. Snapshots and descriptions are found on the following pages. For the descriptions I have, for the most part, lifted them from bookseller sale pages for expediency.

WB01 The Joys of Wine by Clifton Fadiman and Sam Aaron. 1981 edition. 450 pages. 10.75” x 13.5”. Seven Pounds. $17

WB02 Champagne by William I. Kaufman, 1973. 212 pages with great photos and illustrations. 10.5” x 14.25”. Weight: 4.5 pounds. $12

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WB09 World Wine Almanac & Wine Atlas by Grace Treber. Information on 4100 wines. First printing, September 1976. Looks like over 900 pages. Many labels pictured. Four pounds. 8.25” x 10.25”. $18

WB12 Wine Labels; 1730-2003, A Worldwide History. Edited and co-authored by John Salter. This huge volume is the Bible for the Wine Label Circle. It was published in 2004 with a price of $200. 448 pages Hundreds of pictures of bottle labels/tickets (the things that hang by a chain typically on a decanter). The book is in near mint condition. Five pounds. 8.5” x 11”. $89

WB13 Sotheby’s World Wine Encyclopedia. Tom Stevenson. “A Comprehensive Reference Guid to the Wines of the World.” 1988. Labels, photos, maps, descriptions – everything! 480 pages. Four pounds, five ounces. 8.75” x 11.25”. $59

WB14 Wine & Spirits by Alec Waugh and the Editors of Time-Life Books, photographed by Arie deZanger. 208 pages. One pound, thirteen ounces. 8.5” x 11”. $8

WB16 The Sotheby’s Guide to Classic Wines and Their Labels by David Molyneuz-Berry, Master of Wine. “The essential guide to more than 2,500 of the world’s finest wines and their labels.” 400 pages. 1990. All labels pictured in color. Three pounds, ten ounces. 7.5” x 11.5”. $49

WB17 Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine. Third edition, 2006 (First published in 1994). 812 pages with practically everything you need to know!. Entries are encyclopedia style with terms, names, brands, locations, people, and more. A huge, important book. Six pounds, eleven ounces. 9” x 11.5”. $45

WB18 Napa Valley: The Land, the Wine, the People by Charles O’Rear. 230 pages of fantastic photos. Three pounds, nine ounces. 9.25” x 12.25”. $24

WB20 The Global Encyclopedia of Wine. Compiled by thirty-six wine experts and published in 2000. This is a 2002 reprint. 912 pages of photos, details, maps, etc. Seven pounds, two ounces. 9.25” x 12”. $49

WB21 Crimean Wines. A 192 page hardcover book in Russian with excellent photos. 2004. Three pounds. 9.75” x 11.5”. $35

WB23 The Signet Encyclopedia Wine. E. Frank Henriques. Copyright 1975. A 350 page paperback filled with details about wine and wineries worldwide at your fingertips. 4.25” x 7”. Seven ounces. $4

WB25 Curiosities of Wine by Pamela Vandyke Price. $35

WB26 Breaking Away to Virginia & Maryland Wineries by Elizabeth Frater. 2002. A must have book when visiting the area. 356 pages. One pound. 5.5” x 8.5”. $12

WB27 The Wines of America by Leon D. Adams. 528 pages of useful information. 1990 edition of a 1973 book. One pound, ten ounces. 6” x 9”. $10

WB38 The Simon and Schuster Pocket Guide to Champagne and Sparkling Wines by Jane MacQuitty. 1986. A great deal of information is packed into this small (3.5” x 7”), 160 page book. 4.5 ounces. $7