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On the Black Hill Bruce Chatwin
Fiction
Historical Fiction
1982 First Edition
Hardcover
Signed
USD$1,068

Description

London: Cape, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. Original grey boards with gilt titles to the spine. A near fine copy with no inscriptions in like un-clipped D/W. This copy benefits from the signature of Chatwin (without dedication) to the title page. Signed copies are extremely rare

About On the Black Hill

On the Black Hill is a novel by Bruce Chatwin published in 1982. The story is a chronicle of 80 years in the lives of the identical twin brothers Lewis and Benjamin Jones, who live on a farm on the English-Welsh border, a region Chatwin famously dubbed 'the Black Hill'.

Identifying the First Edition of On the Black Hill

First editions of 'On the Black Hill' can be identified by the presence of a number line with '1' and the publisher name 'Jonathan Cape'. Early printings also include the dust jacket if it is hardcover and may contain specific comments or reviews indicative of first edition prints.