Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk
by Hardyment, Christina
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG DW
- ISBN 10
- 0224029894
- ISBN 13
- 9780224029896
- Seller
-
WINTERTON, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
GB: Cape, 1984. Inscribed (likely) By the Author "For Patrick & Gill October 1984 with lots of love Tina". (Photo on request). Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.. Inscribed By the Author. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/VG DW.
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.
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- Bookseller
- Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer)
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- kb081.101
- Title
- Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk
- Author
- Hardyment, Christina
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG DW
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224029894
- ISBN 13
- 9780224029896
- Publisher
- Cape
- Place of Publication
- GB
- Date Published
- 1984
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Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer)
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WINTERTON, Lincolnshire
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