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A Pike in the Basement: Tales of a Hungry Traveller
by Loftus, Simon
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0865473951
- ISBN 13
- 9780865473959
- Seller
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About This Item
San Francisco, California: North Point Press, 1989. Book. Illus. by Jonathan Gibbs, Illustrator. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition, First printing. Clean first American edition in clean unclipped dust jacket (now in new archival quality removable mylar cover). Brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and endpapers are clean - no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with woodcut engravings by Jonathan Gibbs. 142 pages. Wonderful essays by Loftus as he enjoys his three passions in life--wine, travel and food. These sixteen irresistible essays eloquently bring to life some of his high adventures in various exotic locales, along with the memorable meals that accompanied them..
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- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034874
- Title
- A Pike in the Basement: Tales of a Hungry Traveller
- Author
- Loftus, Simon
- Illustrator
- Jonathan Gibbs, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition, First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0865473951
- ISBN 13
- 9780865473959
- Publisher
- North Point Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, California
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- FOOD WRITING, TRAVEL, ESSAYS, FIRST EDITION, SIMON LOFTUS, JONATHAN GIBBS WOODCUT ENGRAVINGS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; Cookbooks;
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