Drilling For Wine (SCARCE FIRST EDITION, LATER PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR, ROBIN YAPP)

Yapp, Robin

ISBN 10: 0571147607 / ISBN 13: 9780571147601

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1988

About this Item

NrF. First Edition, Later Printing, (same year as first edition). Paperback. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ROBIN YAPP, without dedication or inscription on title-page. xiii,186pp. The autobiography of Robin Yapp, who was originally a full-time practising dentist who became one of Britain's leading specialist wine importers. With Index. Covers illustration by Quentin Blake. Age-tanning to edges of pages; else a near fine copy of a SCARCE first edition, later printing SIGNED BY AUTHOR, ROBIN YAPP.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Drilling For Wine (SCARCE FIRST EDITION, LATER PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR, ROBIN YAPP)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571147607
• ISBN 13: 9780571147601
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition, Later Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author, Robin Yapp
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography and Autobiography

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Synopsis

In this entertaining account, the author regales the readers with accounts of his early adventures amid the horrors of the 1950s catering industry, of friendships nurtured, and of celebrated personalities within and without the wine trade.