Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Chatwin, Bruce. The Songlines. Jonathan Cape/London Limited Editions, London, 1987.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is number 99 of of the specially bound, limited edition of 150 copies SIGNED by Chatwin. Fine condition but for faint toning to the text margins, as usual. Lacks the glassine dust jacket.
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$323.09 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. First printing. Copy 65 /150. Fine in Near fine semi-transparent dustjacket, protected by an archival quality, removable, transparent, inert jacket protector. Far more desirable than the Franklin Library edition. Overseas buyers please read shipping terms and estimated transit times prior to ordering.' 'We are established reputable First Edition sellers and understand collectors needs in terms of accurate grading and proper packaging'
Seller: Malden Books, Kingston-upon-Thames, SURRE, United Kingdom
CHATWIN, Bruce. The Songlines. Jonathan Cape, London, 1987.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Good with spine somewhat tilted and light foxing on page edges, in a very good glassine dustwrapper with offsetting on the front panel. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by the author and specially bound. Author's final novel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Chatwin, Bruce. The Songlines. Jonathan Cape, London, 1987.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 293pp.; HB quarter-bound; yellow-blue designe w/brwn.&gilt; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. vellum cover. Aboriginal life in Australia. No.83 of 150 numbered copis signed by author.
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Chatwin, Bruce. The Songlines [Signed Ltd 1st Ed]. Jonathan Cape, London, 1987.
Price: US$408.10 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The uncommon Signed Limited First Edition [Jonathan Cape, 1987] printed & specially bound for the London Limited Editions series. Signed by Chatwin on LLE title page [followed by half-title & Cape title page]. #18 of only 150 copies printed. Quarter-cloth over marbled boards in original glassine jacket; red ink to block base; jacket bumped with small chips at spine ends; an excellent copy. ISBN: 0-224-02452-3 / 0224024523. A handsome edition of this enduring exploration of Indigenous Australian culture.
Seller: Orchard Bookshop [ANZAAB / ILAB], Adelaide, SA, Australia
Bruce Chatwin. The Songlines (Signed/Limited Edition). London Limited Editions / Cape, 1987.
Price: US$420.01 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by Author(s) This is a special edition (London Limited Editions 75/150) Signed on the titlepage by Chatwin. There are in fact two DWs one is glassine which is creased on rear top edge, & one in plastic which has a tear at top of spine.
Seller: The Books of Eli, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Issue, one of 150 numbered copies signed by the author, this being no.113. Octavo; 3/4 marbled paper over quarter brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; glassine dustjacket; 293pp. Fine in a Near Fine glassine, with a touch of wear along the edges. Chatwin's highly-regarded book, combining fiction and non-fiction, describing his trip to Australia, where he researched Aboriginal songs and their connection to nomadic travel.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Bruce Chatwin. The Songlines. Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1987.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A clean copy of the First Edition in a clean glassine jacket. The limited, numbered SIGNED Edition! Published as a LONDON LIMITED EDITION.; 1.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 Inches; 293 pages; UK hardback first impression. VG with some page tanning and a fractional lean to spine. The jacket is VG, unclipped with some very light creasing to edges. Jonathan Cape 1987.; Signed by Author
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.