Napa Wine With Notes and Introduction by Brian McGinty
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
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- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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GRASS VALLEY, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Westwinds Books [1974]. 1974. Limited Edition. Softcover. One of 950 copies printed at the Cranium Press. 38 pp.; cloth backed paper covered boards of decoratively patterned vine leaves by Brian Day; frontis portrait illus. of Stevenson. Gabler [I] 38080. The brief memoir comprising Napa Wine was first published in the expanded book edition of The Silverado Squatters printed in London by Chatto & Windus, 1883, having been omitted from the earlier serialization in Century Magazine. Gabler calls it " a significant literary account of the beginning of the Napa Valley Wine industry," and quotes Stevenson's " the smack of California earth shall linger in the palate of your grandson." Faint, small sticker blemish on front endpaper, near fine condition thus .
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- Bookseller
- G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1138
- Title
- Napa Wine With Notes and Introduction by Brian McGinty
- Author
- STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Westwinds Books [1974]
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- WESTERN, AMERICANA, WINE, WINEMAKING, CALIFORNIA, LITERATURE
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