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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060852550
- ISBN 13
- 9780060852559
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. New. F/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. SIGNED on the title page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. B&W drawings at chapter headings. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 269 pages. 6¼ x 9¼ "
Barbara Kingsolver's nonfiction account of a year when she and her family attempted to eat only locally grown food. The book falls into several categories: a memoir, a polemic, a sermon, and a call to locavorism. Eye-opening in multiple ways to an old truth: you are what you eat.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4589
- Title
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
- Author
- Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060852550
- ISBN 13
- 9780060852559
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 269
- Size
- 6.25 x 9.25
- Keywords
- cooking, food, nature, health, memoir, gardening
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books; First Edition;
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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