Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted
by Hawes, Annie
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060198508
- ISBN 13
- 9780060198503
- Seller
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Sewell, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. The image provided is the actual book I'm offering for sale. No markings or damage to any pages. No sunning. No clips. Structure of the book (covers, binding, spine, hinges) is tight and free of damage. Page block is nice and square. Cut pages. Additional photos will be provided upon request to ensure the quality and integrity of your book purchase.
Synopsis
A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the Italian Riviera but find naturally that it's an offer they can't refuse. The laugh is on the Foreign Females who discover that here amongst the hardcore olive farming folk their incompetence is positively alarming. Not to worry: the thrifty villagers of Diano San Pietro are on the case, and soon plying the Pallid Sisters with advice, ridicule, tall tales and copious hillside refreshments...
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- Bookseller
- The Dusty Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0004906
- Title
- Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted
- Author
- Hawes, Annie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. 337 pp.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060198508
- ISBN 13
- 9780060198503
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 337
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Nonfiction, Biography, Travel, Italy, Food and Drink, Memoir
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography; Non-fiction; Italy; Travel; Food and Drink; Memoir;
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