Chatwin Bruce 1940 1989 (35 results)

paperback. Condition: 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. Condition: 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.…

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 -- André 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 Jünger: 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; Jünger, 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 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.…

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.…

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). …

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.…

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.…

Softcover. Condition: New. 1a.ed. 15x23cm, Realidades. Erste Auflage, 556p., Rústica con solapa. Sprache: Spanisch, NUEVO / NEU / NEW. Como revela Nicholas Shakespeare en la introducción a estas Cartas, Chatwin era un personaje de sí mismo, y el álter ego que aparece en sus obras es muy distinto del Chatwin que muestra su correspondencia, publicada luego de un meticuloso trabajo editorial de veinte años llevado a cabo entre Shakespeare y la viuda del escritor, Elizabeth Chatwin. Como si supiera desde siempre que su vida se vería interrumpida de manera abrupta, Chatwin escribió cartas con una compulsión y honestidad sobrecogedoras. Su correspondencia con su mujer, al igual que con personajes como Susan Sontag, Roberto Calasso, Paul Theroux, Patrick Leigh Fermor y varios más revela una mente infatigable, maquinando a perpetuidad su siguiente movimiento, haciendo malabares de compra-venta de piezas de arte antiguo para pagar un nuevo viaje excéntrico, «sudando tinta» para producir el próximo libro genial. Las cartas escritas desde lugares tan disímiles como Inglaterra, Argentina, Grecia, Afganistán, Suecia, Turquía o Suráfrica revelan a un contador de historias en estado puro, apasionado de la vida (un mes antes de morir se lamentaba: «Aún hay tantas cosas que quiero hacer»). ** 10% DESCUENTO/RABATT/DISCOUNT PRIMAVERA * excl. New German Books * * * * 26,10 (original price 29,00) **.…

Cartoné editorial. Condition: Bien. 280 p. -- Biblioteca del viajero ABC, 21.

Brossura. Condition: 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. Condition: 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.…

Copertina morbida. Condition: Buono. 126 p. ; 21 x 13 cm. La Biblioteca di Repubblica. Novecento, 58. «Utz» è la cronaca di una follia quieta. «Utz» è uno studio sulla mania del collezionismo. «Utz» è la cronaca di una vicenda reale ma il fatto che sia reale la rende più o meno affascinante? «Utz» è l'ultimo libro scritto da Bruce Chatwin, quando già era molto malato (sarebbe morto un anno dopo, nel gennaio del 1989, a Nizza), e mescola, incrocia, monta, smonta tutti i temi, gli stili e gli strumenti con cui Chatwin ci ha ammaliato nella sua breve vita di scrittore e di uomo: la limpidezza della scrittura , l'erudizione, la curiosità, il passaggio elegante e fluido da un registro all'altro, dalla testimonianza all'invenzione, dal patetico all' ironico, sempre con un tocco autobiografico, sempre con l'autore ben presente o appena travestito , non solo in quanto deus ex machina narrante, ma in quanto personaggio, osservatore, cucitore attivo dei fili della storia. Traduzione di Dario Mazzone. Legatura editoriale, coperta in cartone rigido telato di colore azzurro, con impresso il titolo in nero al dorso, muto il piatto. Sovraccoperta di colore verde, illustrata a colori. Firma di appartenenza nell'occhiello per il resto libro integro.…

Copertina morbida. Condition: Buono. 16. ed. 265 p., [1] carta di tav. : ill. ; 22 x 14 cm. Biblioteca Adelphi, 117. «In Patagonia» venne premiato con l'Hawthornden Prize ed è un diario del viaggio che l'autore intraprese alla ricerca delle tracce di un suo antenato marinaio attraverso la Patagonia argentina e cilena. «In Patagonia» è universalmente considerato il capolavoro di Bruce Chatwin. La narrazione, secondo il consueto stile chatwiniano, si abbandona a numerose divagazioni di tipo storico e scientifico. L'opera si configura anche come una ricerca delle proprie radici, ripercorrendo le vicissitudini affrontate da un leggendario personaggio della famiglia dell'autore, il capitano Charles Milward. Traduzione di Marina Marchesi. Brossura editoriale, coperta illustrata a colori in cartoncino flessibile con alette. Qualche lieve segno del tempo ai profili della coperta, per il resto libro integro.…

Copertina morbida. Condition: Discreto. 9. ed. 444 p. ; 22 x 14 cm. Biblioteca Adelphi, 222. Il libro in cui Bruce Chatwin raccolse, negli ultimi mesi prima della morte, quei pezzi dispersi della sua opera che avevano segnato altrettante tappe di una sola avventura, di tutta una vita intesa come «un viaggio da fare a piedi». Al seguito di Indira Gandhi o in visita da Ernst Jünger, alla ricerca dello yeti o in quartieri malfamati di Marsiglia, a cena con Diana Vreeland o con Werner Herzog nel Ghana o con un geomante cinese a Hong Kong, Chatwin è sempre in viaggio e osserva ogni esperienza con lo sguardo penetrante di chi, a partire da qualsiasi cosa, vuole andare il più lontano possibile. Titolo originale dell'opera: «What am I doing here?». Traduzione di Dario Mazzone. Brossura editoriale, coperta illustrata (b/n) in cartoncino colorato con alette. Qualche segno del tempo alla coperta e al dorso, per il resto libro integro.…

Condition: 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. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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).…

8vo. 17, [1]pp. Original wrappers, printed paper label on cover. Slight shadow at edges of wrapper. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 6 of 175 copies from an edition of 211. With a lengthy presentation inscription from the publisher on the second leaf beneath the introductory text.