Chatwin bruce 1940 (24 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $9.95, near fine copy, probably unused, tiniest ding to corner. CHATWIN, BRUCE. The Songlines. New York: Penguin Books, 1988, later printing, 294pp., . 9780140094299 ISBN 0140094296 9.60.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $18.00, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. CHATWIN, BRUCE. The songlines. Introduction by Rory Stewart. New York: Penguin Books, 2012, xxiv, 294pp., . Series: Penguin classics A story of ideas in which two companions, traveling and talking together, explore the hopes and dreams that animate both them and the people they encounter in Central Australia's almost uninhabitable regions. ISBN 9780142422571 7.60.…

Chatwin, Bruce, 1940-1989. The Viceroy of Ouidah. New York: Penguin Books, 1988, 155pp., PAPERBACK, original price $6.95, good worn used copy but covers are worn at spine and edges. ISBN 9780140112900.

Chatwin, Bruce, 1940-1989. Traumpfade: Roman. Aus dem Englischen von Anna Kamp. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1994, Limitierte Sonderausgabe, 393pp., PAPERBACK, good lightly used copy, light crease marks on spine. Fischer 12405. GERMAN TRANSLATION of The Songlines. - "Traumpfade": das sind die unsichtbaren labyrinthischen Wege, die den australischen Kontinent durchziehen und entlang derer, so will es der Schöpfungsmythos der Ureinwohner, die Ahnen wandelten und mit ihren Liedern die Welt erschlossen. Chatwin geht diesen Fußspuren in seinem faszinierenden Buch nach, das Roman und Reisebericht zugleich, ein Glücksfall der zeitgenössischen Literatur ist. ISBN 9783596124053. …

Chatwin, Bruce, 1940-1989. What am I doing here. New York: Viking, 1989, stated First American edition with 1st printing number line, vii, 367pp., very good dust-jacket, cover price $19.95, very good white half-cloth with white boards, some small flecks on woven cloth, book appears little used if at all. 9780670825080 ISBN 0670825085.…

1st edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; vii, 367 pages ; 18 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 367). Contents; 1. Written for friends and family (Assuanta -- Assuanta 2 -- Your father's eyes are blue again) -- 2. Strange encounters (A coup -- The Lyman family -- Until my blood is pure -- The Chinese geomancer) -- 3. Friends (George Ortiz -- Kevin Volana -- Howard Hodgkin -- At dinner with Diana Vreeland) -- 4. Encounters (A visit / Nadezhda Mandelstam -- Madeleine Vionnet -- The riddle of the Pampa / Maria Reiche -- Architect / Konstantin Melnikov -- Andre? Malraux -- Werner Herzog in Ghana) -- 5. Russia (George Costakis: The story of an art collector in the Soviet Union -- The Volga) -- 6. China (Heavenly horses -- Rock's world -- Nomad invasions) -- 7. People (Shamdev: The wolf-boy -- The very sad story of Salah Bougrine -- Donald Evans) -- 8. Travel (On Yeti tracks -- A lament for Afghanistan) -- 9. Two more people (Ernst Ju?nger: An aesthete at war -- On the road with Mrs. G.) -- 10. Coda (The Albatross -- Chiloe) -- 11. Tales of the art world (The Duke of M- -- The Bey -- The fly -- My Modi). Subjects; Ju?nger, Ernst 1895-1998. Strahlungen. Chatwin, Bruce 1940-1989 ; Biography. Chatwin, Bruce 1940-1989 Travel. Travel Accounts of. Travelers ; Biography. Voyages and travels ; Anecdotes. Voyages and travels ; Biography. Travel writing. Travel Biographies. Expository writing. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy is not price-clipped. Physical description: 154 p. ; 23 cm. Summary: Harbouring his private collection of Meissen porcelains, Kaspar Utz found a refuge from the horrors of the twentieth century. It was the colourful Harlequin, 'the Trickster', with whom nondescript Utz most identified. Chatwin explores the life of Utz and his 'blasphemous' collecting habit in this stylish fiction. Subject: Collectors and collecting - Fiction. Collectors and collecting - Czechoslovakia - Fiction. English fiction - 20th century. Czechoslovakia - Fiction. Fiction in English - 1945- - Texts. Modern fiction, FICTION / General. Genre: Fiction, text. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 62p. : ill. ; 23cm. Subjects: Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel. Travel in literature. 1 Kg. Illustrated By Kyffin Williams (illustrator). …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical description: vii, 367p. ; 22cm. Subjects: In this personal selection of stories and travelogues, Chatwin reveals part of himself as he looks at the world populated by the wise, the misguided, the beautiful and the bizarre. It follows his view of the world through situations; he abandoned his job to pursue his passion for world travel. Subjects: Bruce Chatwin - Travel literature. Voyages and travels - Biography. 1 Kg.…

Tb. Softcover (farb. ill.). 285 S. (Einband leicht ber., sonst sehr gut).

Tb. Softcover (farb. ill.). 267 S. Mit einer Karte u. Tafelabb. (Nahezu sehr gut).

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 554 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Selected and edited by Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Preface / Elizabeth Chatwin Introduction / Nicholas Shakespeare Schooldays: 1948-58 Sotheby's: 1959-66 Edinburgh: 1966-8 The nomadic alternative: 1969-72 Sunday times: 1972-4 Gone to Patagonia: 1974-6 The viceroy of Ouidah: 1976-80 On the Black Hill: 1980-83 The songlines: 1983-5 China and India: 1985-6 Homer end: 1986-8 Oxford and France: 1988-9. Subjects; Chatwin, Bruce (1940-1989) Correspondence. Authors, English 20th century Correspondence. Travel writers Great Britain Correspondence. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Quarto, 291 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with white print. Dust jacket has slight edge wear. Boards in black cloth. Illustrated color photographs. Text in Italian and English. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex in column ND-QC. 1406400. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Brossura. Zustand: Ottimo (Fine). Traduzione di Marina Marchesi . 16mo. pp. 150. . Ottimo (Fine). . . . Si aggiunge dello stesso autore, traduttore, editore e collana: In Patagonia, (2004, pp.264, con fotografie in bianco e nero. Ottimo). Book.

Brossura. Zustand: Molto buono (Very Good). Traduzione di Marina Marchesi . 8vo. pp. 276. . Molto buono (Very Good). Fioriture ai tagli (Yellowing of edges). . . Si aggiunge il volume di Bruce CHATWIN Bruce e Paul THEROUX: Ritorno in Patagonia (Traduzione di Clara Morena. Adelphi, Piccola biblioteca, 1991. 16mo, brossura, pp. 78). Book.…

Zustand: FINE. First US printing. Chatwin's first book, one which redefined travel writing, a record of a six month stay in Patagonia in 1974 but much more, including reflections on his childhood and the stories of other travellers to the area. Chatwin himself called it a "Quest or Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile and its structure is as old as literature itself." Sources. 203 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to corner of front flap of dj).…

Ill. orig. engl. Brosch. 637 S. Mit Frontispiz u. s/w Tafelabb. Außerdem Zeittafel, Bibliographie d. Werke Chatwins u. Register. (Wie neu. Bilder auf Anfrage).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. 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 in time and space, mixing fiction and fact, the reader encounters the Patagonian present of Chatwin's own visit: Welsh villages complete with gardens and tea-rooms, gauchos, a French soprano, a young pianist who asks complicated questions about Liszt, an elderly German yearning back to the times of Mad King Ludwig, a would-be miner from Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco . . . . The fabulously self-absorbed travelogue launched Chatwin's successful writing career and won him the Hawthornden prize as well as the E. M. Forster award." (The Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.…

dj. [Patagonia] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Small octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.62 [2]. With occasional in-text woodcuts by Williams. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and light blue endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Williams, priced at £4.50. A clean, fine copy. A collection of vignettes on the literary aspects of Patagonia, by the authors of 'In Patagonia' (1977) and 'The Old Patagonian Express' (1979).…

hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Seconda edizione (2nd Edition). Introduzione di Francis Wyndham. A cura di David King e Francis Wyndham. Fotografie a colori di Bruce Chatwin . Cm 27x31,5. pp. 160. . Ottimo (Fine). . Seconda edizione (2nd Edition). . Come si parla di orecchio assoluto a proposito di coloro che sanno riconoscere perfettamente l'altezza dei suoni, si potrebbe parlare di «occhio assoluto» per una qualità che Bruce Chatwin già mostrava nei suoi scritti e che ci appare, e si impone, nelle sue fotografie. Riconoscere in ciò che sta attorno a noi ? e soprattutto attorno all'occhio, sempre mobile, del viaggiatore ? quegli spicchi di realtà che sono altrettante visioni, isolarli dal resto e lasciarli vibrare nella loro pura evidenza ottica: questo è il segno di elezione dell'«occhio assoluto». Le immagini che compaiono in questo libro furono colte in Patagonia e in Mauritania, in Australia e nell'Afghanistan, nel Mali e in Nepal, ma spesso il luogo di origine e l'occasione rimangono indecifrabili, come se la pura accidentalità del viaggiare fosse servita a far emergere ogni volta, in un labile momento, la piena singolarità di un frammento di ciò che è, senza altri attributi, e al tempo stesso il muto stupore dell'occhio che lo coglie. Insieme a queste sorprendenti fotografie appaiono qui per la prima volta lunghi estratti dai taccuini di Chatwin, riserva alla quale era solito attingere per tutte le sue opere. Da due vie, dunque, L'occhio assoluto permetterà di entrare nel segreto ? quasi nella percezione stessa ? di uno scrittore che rimarrà fra i grandi dei nostri anni. Book.…

dj. First Edition. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.249; [5], blank. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-wrapper designed by Mon Mohan. Near fine in like wrapper. On The Black Hill, the author's first novel, was awarded the 1982 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, founded in memory of a partner in the publishing house of A. and C. Black Ltd., and one of the oldest and most prestigious book awards in Britain. Artist Mon Mohan illustrated the jacket for John Gardner's first James Bond novel the previous year. From the Jon Gilbert collection (pencil ownership within).…

dj. First Edition. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 155; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, map endpapers, photographic dust-jacket clipped and repriced with a sticker at £6.95 by the publisher. A clean, fine copy.

First Edition. [Aboriginal Australia] SIGNED DELUXE US EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[18] 293 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the first blank, exclusively from members of the Signed First Edition Society. Publisher's black full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a design stamped in brown and gilt to boards. All edges gilt, with marbled endpapers. A crisp, fine copy. Chatwin's 'novel of ideas', drawing on his visit to the Aboriginal camps of central Australia. Signed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine-. First Edition. First Impression. 8vo: 248,[2]pp. Publisher's slate grey cloth, spine stamped in gilt, wraparound pictorial dust jacket, by Mon Mohan, unclipped and unpriced (one of the export copies Jonathan Cape issued; priced copies include the exception, "UK only"). Signed by Chatwin (without dedication) on title page. Presented the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1982 and the Whitbread First Novel of the Year Award (there is debate as to whether Chatwin's The Viceroy of Ouidah, a fictionalized account of an actual eighteenth-century Brazilian slave trader, published two year before On the Black Hill, should be considered fiction or nonfiction). Near Fine or better (spine tips bumped, stray spot or two to top and fore-edges, short, thin ink line to bottom edge of front cover); About Fine jacket (lightly nicked to one flap fold). Chatwin's first novel (and third book), "written in the tradition of Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence, revives the almost forgotten genre of the pastoral [as it] follows the lives of identical twins [Benjamin and Lewis Jones] whose experience provides a miniature-like perspective on twentieth-century history far from the madding crowd, wars, and disasters. . . . A stage version by Charles Way was first performed in 1986, and in 1987 director Andrew Grieve turned the taciturn pastoral into a successful film version with two Welsh actors, Mike and Robert Gwilym, as Lewis and Benjamin Jones, and hundreds of Radnorshire residents participating as extras." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Signed.…