On the Black Hill
Cape, 1982.
First edition. Original grey boards with gilt titles to the spine in pictorial dustwrapper designed by Mon Mohan. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the title page, "For Joe Hunt / With best wishes and thanks / Bruce Chatwin / 9 Nov '83" A near fine copy with a couple of small indentations to the bottom edge of the boards, in a fine dustwrapper.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The author's third novel, concerning happenings on the Welsh border over the course of a century. Presentation copies of Chatwin's work are rare.
Stock ID: 25809