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Bruce Chatwin. In Patagonia. Jonathan Cape, London, 1977.
Price: US$2000.05 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine, first edition of this classic travel memoir. Inscribed by Chatwin on title page. Jacket price clipped, but otherwise in near fine condition, no other tears or creases of any kind. Binding square and tight. Small, discreet Discard stamp on top and bottom of text block. Also stamped on free front end paper, title page and rear paste down. Other than Discard stamp, pages clean and unmarked. Though stamped Discard, there is no other evidence of this being an ex-library book. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine A lovely, signed first edition of an important book
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Chatwin, Bruce. IN PATAGONIA. Jonathan Cape, London, 1977.
Price: US$2450.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition, "RARELY SIGNED" - first impression of the author's first book, establishing him as one of his generation's top ranking travel writers. Signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 204 pp. A near fine copy, in navy boards, map. and frontispiece, gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh, NOT price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First Edition, first issue with maps on the endpapers. The author's first book and a modern literature highlight.Includes photos that do not appear in the later U.S. first edition. An expertly recovered ex-library copy, the page across from the front pastedown has been removed and bleached by a professional book conservator and professionally reattached. The only remaining ex-library indications are the wear to the bottom boards, and tape shadow to upper and lower front and back covers. Tape was professionally removed and there is no residue or scarring of any kind. The shadow, however, remains. IN PATAGONIA by Bruce Chatwin received the 1978 Hawthornden Prize and the 1979 E. M. Forster Award, given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It was also nominated for the 1988 Booker Prize. A BEAUTIFUL ADDITION TO ANY LIBRARY COLLECTIONS OF BRUCE CHATWIN.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
CHATWIN, Bruce.. In Patagonia.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977, 1977.
Price: US$3221.18 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Philip Murray, best wishes, Bruce Chatwin, Nov '88". A noted Irish bibliophile and author of The Adventures of a Book Collector (2011), the sale of Murray's library was Ireland's largest ever single sale of first edition books. Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist. In 1982 he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel for his novel On the Black Hill and in 1988 was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel Utz. In Patagonia is Chatwin's first book. This copy is first issue, with printed map endpapers: later issues were blank. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blue map endpapers. With dust jacket. Black and white map frontispiece, 4 black and white double-sided photographic plates. Spine a little cocked, one corner bumped, a few trivial spots of foxing. A near-fine copy in like jacket, spine panel just sunned, unclipped, a touch of foxing to verso and flaps, free from nicks and rubbing, very fresh and sharp.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Chatwin, Bruce. In Patagonia.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1977.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of authorâs most well-known work and one of the great travel books of the last half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece map and 4 black and white photographic plates. Signed by Bruce Chatwin on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. A very nice example, rare signed. An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwins exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for life and adventure and a singular gift for storytelling, Chatwin treks through "the uttermost part of the earth" that stretch of land at the southern tip of South America, where bandits were once made welcomein search of almost forgotten legends, the descendants of Welsh immigrants, and the log cabin built by Butch Cassidy. An instant classic upon publication in 1977, In Patagonia is a masterpiece that has cast a long shadow upon the literary world. "A travel book to stand on the shelf with Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham, and Paul Theroux." (The New York Times Book Review).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia (Signed Association Copy). London: Jonathan Cape, 1977.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo. A significant association copy, SIGNED by Chatwin and inscribed in the year of publication to Tom Maschler, the head of Jonathan Cape and Chatwin's publisher. "For Tom, without whose enthusiasm. Bruce / 10. Sept '77." The most important literary travelogue of its time. Fine in a fine jacket save for some of the usual discoloration to the spine.
Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.