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Villas at Table: A Passion for Food and Drink
by Villas, James
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060159952
- ISBN 13
- 9780060159955
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Stated First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Edition (First Printing, with full number line) in unclipped dust jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with small initials "jv" stamped on cover, green lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean gold endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 302 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped, very slight age-toning to inside flaps. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A wiity, iconoclastic, authoritative practitioner of food prose at its best, this book is a cornucopia of wonderful, original writing..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026500
- Title
- Villas at Table: A Passion for Food and Drink
- Author
- Villas, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0060159952
- ISBN 13
- 9780060159955
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- FOOD WRITING, CULINARY ARTS, GASTRONOMY, FIRST EDITION, JAMES VILLAS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cookbooks;
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- Edges
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- Fine
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