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Utz: A Novel
by Bruce Chatwin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670824976
- ISBN 13
- 9780670824977
- Seller
-
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
NZ$15.32NZ$13.79
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About This Item
First American hardcover edition, with dust jacket, 1989. Kaspar Utz is the owner of a unique collection of Meissen porcelain. He lives in a two room flat in Prague in the 1970's. He should be trying to flee government persecution, but he feels bound to protect the collection. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. This is not a remainder, not s library discard. There is a small smudge mark to the fore edge, affects the edge of pages 119 - 128. Paste down and first flyleaf pages have a rectangle spot of fading where a newspaper review had been stored, leaving a brown discoloration, about 4" X 6". Gray boards with black cloth covered spine, with the author name and title imprinted on the spine in silver. Boards are flat, the corners are not bumped or creased. No edge wear to the boards. Sewn binding is tight and square. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
Synopsis
Bruce Chatwin 's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of Kaspar Utz, an enigmatic collector of Meissen porcelain living in Cold War Czechoslovakia. Although Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and considers defecting each time, he always returns to his Czech home, a prisoner of the Communist state and of his precious collection.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-608
- Title
- Utz: A Novel
- Author
- Bruce Chatwin
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670824976
- ISBN 13
- 9780670824977
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Prague
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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