Night Letters; A Journey through Switzerland and Italy

Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Map illustrated endpapers, showing a map of both Switzerland and Italy. Dark blue coloured boards with white coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing Lion of Saint Mark by Carpaccio, with dark blue coloured background and gilt coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black and white coloured photograph of the author to the rear fold over panel. " Every night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man recently diagnosed with incurable disease writes a letter home to a friend. In these 20 letters he describes not only the kaleidoscopic journey he has just made from Switzerland across northern Italy to Venice, but reflects on questions of mortality, seduction and the search for paradise in a deeply life- enhancing ways." -- from the front fold over blurb. Softening of the back strip edges and rubbing of the book corners and lower book edges. A few marks and rubs to the book panels. Uniform tanning of the text block edges and age toning of the pages. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with a few marks to the rear panel. A little creasing of the rear fold over panel. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 276 pages, notes.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0732908515. ISBN/EAN: 9780732908515. Inventory No: 0124934. . 9780732908515