In Patagonia Tapa dura - 1977

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1984. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Moderate foxing at page edges. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0224014196

Jonathan Cape, London, 1984. Early Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. VG/Good+ 1984 reprint with later jacket design, unclipped DJ. Minor curling and surface wear to top corner of some central pages, circular cup ring to front of jacket (mainly visible from inside the jacket) with a couple of surface marks to left front edge of DJ, light page tan, near VG and unmarked otherwise. Size: 23cm. 204 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Exploration; Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) Description and travel; ISBN: 0224014196. ISBN/EAN: 9780224014199. Dewey Code: 918.2/7/046. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 083335.. 9780224014199

London, U.K: Jonathan Cape, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good Plus/Very Good, tight clean and unmarked, no age toning or if present very light and uniform, boards excellent and undamaged, dust jacket NOT price-clipped, dj shows light edge wear, light soiling top edge of text block, nice copy of 1984 reprint.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 204. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Map endpapers. Black and white maps and photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+, corner clipped dustjacket with protective brodart sleeve. "Writing with sympathy, humour and clarity of observation, the author charts not only the exotic contrasts of Patagonia's landscape, but also the strange life-histories of the eccentrics and exiles who live there" - from dustjacket.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978 F-/F-. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (slightly rubbed & bumped, else clean & crisp) in dustwrapper (price clipped by publisher, with replacement price label added (£7.50 net in UK only) , edges a trifle rubbed with discreet stain to tail edge rear); pp. [iv], 204, with plates & 2 maps (1 frontispiece, 1 endpaper). A near fine copy in an unfaded jacket. The author's first book, reissued only once in its original format.. Reprint. Hard Cover. F-/F-.

London: Jonathan Cape 1977. 8vo. 204 pp. Dark blue boards in pictorial price-clipped dustjacket. Endpaper maps and frontis map. Black and white photographic illustrations. Short ink gift inscription dated 'Xmas 1977' above half title. First edition of the author's first book. 0224014196 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1977.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1977. 1st edition. 1st printing.. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a very good, somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper with minor loss, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong Review: A scrap of hairy skin once sent home by cousin Charley Millward the Sailor - part of an extinct Giant Sloth - takes Bruce Chatwin On an inquiring journey through Patagonia, land of last refuge and lingering mystery at the tip of South America. An impromptu traveler, he looks in on Welsh colonists with pottery pugs on the mantle and an elderly German who toasts Mad (""In my home? No!"") King Ludwig; meets a young pianist who asks ""complicated questions"" about Liszt; looks up the French pretender to the lost throne of Araucania (a forebear learned of the untamed Araucanian Indians through Voltaire); picks up a would-be miner from Haight-Ashbury; and repeatedly crosses Butch Cassidy's exile trail. The encounters… Leer más

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/near fine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. A first printing of the true First Edition. This is a nice tight and lightly read copy that has the previous owner's inscription on the half title page. The DJ is bright and crisp and the spine is not faded.. 1st Edition. VG+/ Fine. Book.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing of the first edition. Hardcover, in price-clipped dust jacket. Map endpapers; illustrations from photographs. Mildest handling and shelf-wear to book; jacket shows just slight sunning to spine. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Publicity photograph of author laid in. .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An exceptional first impression ("First published 1977), first issue (map endpapers.), without even a degree of fading to the dust jacket spine panel's fugitive colors, of Chatwin's first book. 8vo: [4],204pp, with map frontispiece, and 14 full- and half-page photographs; pictorial dust jacket, priced £4.95. Publisher's navy blue cloth-effect paper-covered boards; jacket with wrap-around photogaph of the Moreno glacier. Fine, tight, and virtually pristine (white speck to rear cover, hint of lightening to spine). The author's "autobiografictional" travelogue, which "both records and imagines the fulfilment of one of Bruce Chatwin's childhood fascinations, namely to retrace the travel adventures of his grandmother's uncle, Charley Milward, seadog, entrepreneur, and globetrotting family legend, who had died in Punta Arenas, Chile. . . . While the narrative, in a staccato series of short sections (numbered from 1 to 97), meanders about… Leer más