Book #57520

Grapes from Thorns

Dean Acheson

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: Second Printing
Publisher: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1972.
ISBN: 0393052540

Price: $40.00

An aged and edgeworn Second Printing with little page edge soiling in a price-clipped alike dust-jacket.

When Laurel's grandfather dies, she and her brother are left with a vineyard in their family's small hometown of Thorns. Laurel is excited to start working the vineyard, but her brother is more interested in the history of the place. When Laurel discovers a grapevine with thorns growing from it, she begins to learn about the history of the vineyard and the grapes themselves. The vineyard is in a state of decline, but Laurel and her brother are able to revive it by turning to their family's traditional grape growing methods.; 8vo; 253 pages.