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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book in blue boards has minor wear to covers, occasional signs of dog-eared pages and minor waviness, tight and unmarked. Jacket in new mylar cover. Signed legibly on title page.

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiii + 264 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: At the age of forty-seven, when he was a successful publishing executive living with his wife and four children in an affluent Chicago suburb, John Shafer made the surprise announcement that he had purchased a vineyard in the Napa Valley. In 1973, he moved his family to California and, with no knowledge of winemaking, began the journey that would lead him, thirty years later, to own and operate what distinguished wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. called one of the world's greatest wineries. This book, narrated by John Shafer's son Doug, is a personal account of how Doug's father turned his midlife dream into a remarkable success story. American Biography, Americana, Napa, California.…