On the Black Hill
by Chatwin, Bruce
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/F-
- ISBN 10
- 0224019805
- ISBN 13
- 9780224019804
- Seller
-
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 VG+/F-. 8vo. original grey boards gilt (slightly rubbed & sunned, top edge speckling, occ. spot elsewhere, otherwise clean & crisp) in export dustwrapper (slight spotting to flaps); pp. 150 (last blank). A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/F-.
Synopsis
On the Black Hill is a novel by Bruce Chatwin published in 1982 and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for that year. In 1987 it was made into a film, directed by Andrew Grieve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034108
- Title
- On the Black Hill
- Author
- Chatwin, Bruce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- F-
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224019805
- ISBN 13
- 9780224019804
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Bruce Chatwin On the Black Hill Wales Modern Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Sunned
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...