100 Years in the Good Earth. S. Smith & Son Ltd. Yalumba Vineyards, at Angaston, South Australia, 1849-1949
Adelaide, S. Smith & Son Ltd., 1949.
Quarto, [40] pages with numerous illustrations plus a full-page colour plate and colour-pictorial endpapers.
Quarter cloth and pictorial papered boards lightly unevenly sunned; a near-fine copy with the fine transparent acetate dustwrapper.
Provenance: Alfred Wark, with his ownership signature on the front pastedown. Wark was 'secretary of Yalumba for 25 years. Alf was on the Foundation Committees of the Barossa Valley Vintage Festival Association, The Wine Service Guild and the Barossa Valley Bacchus Club and spent many years on other committees in South Australia which supported horse racing, fly fishing and other sports' (information from Yalumba Wines website, apropos their 1966 'Alfred Wark' Galway Vintage Reserve Claret in 'The Signature' label series).
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