RONDA GORGE & OTHER PRECIPICES: Travel Writing 1956-89
by Higgins, Aidan
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0436195976
- ISBN 13
- 9780436195976
- Seller
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Secker & Warburg, 1989 230pp. FIRST UK EDITION of Higgins' collection of travel essays. Original dustjacket not price clipped; with age and shelf wear around the edges also has a very small indentation to the front near the spine. Book pages have yellowing around edges (Secker used inferior paper which has not fared well with age). Text pages clean with no internal markings. Ronda Gorge is a collection of Higgins' travel writing over 23 years which are based on his travel diaries and assorted memoirs piecing together the very best. Aidan Higgins is considered one of modern Ireland's greatest writers. His first experimental novel "Langrishe, Go Down" was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1966. Ronda Gorge is now out of print.
Synopsis
Originally published: London : Allison & Busby, 1987. William T. O'Malley ; gift ; 2005 Dec. Gift of William T. O'Malley.
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- Aardvolk The Virtual Book Store (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000169
- Title
- RONDA GORGE & OTHER PRECIPICES: Travel Writing 1956-89
- Author
- Higgins, Aidan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0436195976
- ISBN 13
- 9780436195976
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Travel Writing
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Travel Writing;
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