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Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
by Bruce Chatwin (author); Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare (editors)
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670022462
- ISBN 13
- 9780670022465
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About This Item
(Chatwin, Bruce ( 1940 - 1989)) Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare (Editors)
Under The Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin. [New York]: Viking. [2011]
Stated first American edition The printer's key, number line, on the copyright page begins with 1.
ISBN-10: 0-670-82508-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-670-02246-5
Published 17th February 2011 at $US 35.00. Quarter bound with paper covered spine and boards. 554 pps. with a preface, introduction, illustrated, and indexed
A fine copy in like dust wrapper. The book is unmarked with either names, inscriptions, notes, marginalia, highlighting, labels, or bookplates. The dust wrapper is not price clipped and is without chips, rips, or tears. The dust wrapper been placed in a new archival grade, paper lined, and removeable cover.
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Synopsis
BRUCE CHATWIN reinvented British travel writing with his first book, In Patagonia , and followed it with four other books, each unique and extraordinary. He died in 1989. ElLIZABETH CHATWIN was born in the U.S.A. She came to London in 1961 to work at Sotheby's, where she met Bruce Chatwin. They married in 1965. She now keeps Black Welsh Mountain Sheep. NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE was born in Worcester in 1957 and grew up in the Far East and Latin America. He is the author of The Vision of the Elena Silves , winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask awards, The High Flyer , for which he was nominated as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, The Dancer Upstairs , and most recently, Inheritance. His non-fiction includes In Tasmania, winner of the 2007 Tasmania Book Prize, and an acclaimed biography of Bruce Chatwin. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- James Trepanier
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52
- Title
- Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
- Author
- Bruce Chatwin (author); Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare (editors)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670022462
- ISBN 13
- 9780670022465
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011-02-17
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