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Buy this book on-line NEWBY, ERIC: : A SMALL PLACE IN ITALY. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers,1994. ISBN 0002158663.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten, black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,
colour pictorial scenic illustration by Edward Piper,to front panel of dw/dj,author/subject b/w portrait/biographical photographs to rear panel,gilt+dark blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges lightly dust-soiled with some minimal marks - but generally clean,fore-edges bright and clean,without any marking; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread? Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,1-210pp [paginated] includes 22 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,a dedication,acknowledgements, b/w line vignette illustration,and a prose/verse extract.
In 1967,Eric Newby and his wife Wanda fulfilled a long-cherished ambition when they acquired I Castagni (otherwise The Chestnuts),a small and excessively ruined farmhouse in the foothills of the Apuan alps on the borders of Liguria and Tuscany.They were the first foreigners to live in the area,and twenty-five years later (then 1992) they remained the only ones.
In this affectionate,humorous,often
hilarious book,Eric Newby recounts how he and Wanda,who met in Italy in 1943 after he escaped from a POW camp,pulled I Castagni from the brink of collapse with the aid of the local esperti (skilled workmen).
It describes their long enduring friendship with the neighbouring contadini, who welcomed them - whether eating, drinking,harvesting grapes and olives,or hunting for fungus and wild asparagus - from the moment they arrived.
In 'Love and War in the Apennines',Eric Newby described the start of his love affair with Italy; in 'A Small Place in Italy',with his inimitable wry humour and eye for the quirks and oddities of human nature,he chronicles how it grew to maturity.An uncommon and scarce SIGNED edition,particularly now the author is deceased (Oct,2006).
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