“Outside in the bright noonday a February wind ruffed the palm trees in the piazza. At the bottom of the avenue a calm blue sea caressed the most perfect sandy bay situated midway between Nice and Genoa.”
Roberts chronicles the color, history, romance, and humor of life along the Italian shore of the Mediterranean.
Author: Cecil Roberts
Title: Portal to Paradise: An Italian Excursion
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955
Description: Hardcover;
Octavo; 241p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket (price-clipped) with edge wear, light chipping, tape residue on inside flaps, and toning—in new dust jacket cover. Boards and spine clean with edge wear, bumping to corners, light tape residue present, and crushing at spine ends. Binding solid with rolling. Pages toned. Mild foxing on edges. Old Woman’s club bookplate on front paste-down.
Comments: Nice vintage copy
