BAMBOO : NON-FICTION 1978-2004.
by BOYD, William, 1952- :
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Hamish Hamilton, (2005). First edition. Signed by William Boyd on the title-page. An extensive collection of Boyd's non-fiction - eleven more-or-less autobiographical pieces followed by forty essays on writers - Boyd on Auden, Ballard, Dickens, Fowles, Golding, Spark, Vonnegut, Waugh, etc.; twenty-one pieces on artists - Braque, Bonnard, Grosz, Hopper, Picasso, etc; eleven pieces on Africa; twelve on film; twelve on television; and twenty-four on an eclectic selection of people and places. "In all its richness, diversity and idiosyncrasy - a beguiling intellectual autobiography of one of our most important novelists". Medium 8vo (25cm). (xviii),650,[iv]pp. Original green cloth, lettered in silver; just a few minimal signs of age and use, but a very good copy in a just faintly bruised dust-jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45753
- Title
- BAMBOO : NON-FICTION 1978-2004.
- Author
- BOYD, William, 1952- :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Hamish Hamilton, (2005).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Prose, Essays, Signed
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