Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1962 • Knopf

Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado 

U.S. FIRST EDITION [1962] ALFRED A. KNOPF

4th Printing / November, 1962

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Some shelf wear to an overall beautiful and vibrant dust jacket; housed in a HQ jacket protector.  Price clipped from front panel. 

Book itself is near mint; beautiful, clean, gilded cloth boards.  Pages read like new. 

One bright spring day in 1925, Gabriela arrives from the poverty-stricken backwoods of Brazil to the lively seaside port of Ilhéus amid a flock of filthy migrant workers. Though wearing rags and covered in dirt, she attracts the attention of Nacib, a cafe owner, who is in desperate need of a new cook. So dire is his situation that he hires the disheveled girl. The savvy young woman quickly proves to be an excellent chef and—once well-scrubbed and decently dressed—an eye-catching beauty. Nacib quickly finds himself the owner of the most prosperous business in town—and the employer of its most sought-after woman.