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A Small Place in Italy.
por Newby, Eric
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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Sobre este item
London; HarperCollins, 1994., 1994. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo, pp. [12], 210, [2]. Publishers' mid blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth clean and bright. Inscribed to title page "Dear Kenneth, with memories of lovely, boozy times spent together from Eric" with the Author's name scored through and his signature above. Jacket lightly toned and surface soiled with minor creasing top edge. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. The story of Newby's restoration of a farmhouse in the foothills of the Alps with his wife, over a period of 25 years from the 1960s.
Sinopse
A Small Place in Italy is a travel memoir and autobiographical novel written by Eric Newby, author of The Last Grain Race and Slowly Down the Ganges. In 1967, Eric Newby and his wife Wanda acquire an old run-down farmhouse in Italy, I Castagni (The Chestnuts), in the foothills of the Apuan Alps on the borders of Liguria and northern Tuscany.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 8070
- Título
- A Small Place in Italy.
- Autor
- Newby, Eric
- Formato/Encadernação
- Hard Cover
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- London; HarperCollins, 1994.
- Data de publicação
- 1994
- Palavras-chave
- Autobiography & Biography
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
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Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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