The Almond Picker Tapa dura - 2005

Good. This is a good clean copy with no inscriptions. It has a good dust jacket and will be posted from the UK within 24 hours by family run bookstore. Please let me know if you require photos of the actual book and I will send them through to you. Just to clarify – This is NOT AN EX-LIBRARY COPY.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005. Hardcover. NF./NF.. 5x1x7. Novel. Translated from the Italian.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2005. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 315 pp., Translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen .

First printing of first US edition. Translation by Alaistair McEwen of "La Mennulara" (Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, 2002). Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 7.5", is bound in white cloth spine and light cream cloth boards, with stamped light blue lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/315 pages."A surprising mystery--and love story--set in rural Sicily. Like many memorable works of fiction, "The Almond Picker" hinges on a question, in this case: who is Maria Rosalia Inzerillo, known as Mennulara, the almond picker? Born into a desperately poor Sicilian farming family, Mennulara went into service when she was only a girl, as a maid for a well-to-do local family; by dint of hard work and intelligence, she became the indispensable administrator of the family's affairs and was said to be rich. Still, she was a mere servant, and now (as the story begins) she is dead.Who was she, really? Simonetta Agnello Hornby's… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.