Bruce Chatwin
by Shakespeare, Nicholas
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1860465447
- ISBN 13
- 9781860465444
- Seller
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Galway, Ireland
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About This Item
London : Harvill in association with Jonathan Cape, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 591 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits ; 24cm. Subjects: Chatwin, Bruce (1940-1989) -- Criticism and interpretation. Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
Synopsis
Nicholas Shakespeare is the author of The Vision of Elena Silves , winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for The High Flyer , for which he was nominated one of Granta 's Best of Young British Novelists in 1993, and The Dancer Upstairs . Between 1991 and 1998 he journeyed in Chatwin's tracks to research this authorized biography.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 304641
- Title
- Bruce Chatwin
- Author
- Shakespeare, Nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1860465447
- ISBN 13
- 9781860465444
- Publisher
- London : Harvill in association with Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
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