The Chess Garden, or The Twilight Letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven
by Hansen, Brooks
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (23.00). No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Fiction. From the Dust Jacket: "In the fall of 1900, Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven left the chess garden that he and his wife, Sonja, had created together in Dayton, Ohio, and journeyed to South Africa to serve as a doctor in the British concentration camps of the Boer War. Over the next twelve months he sent twelve chess pieces and twelve letters back to Sonja... In the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, Brooks Hansen offers a tale of spiritual progress disguised in the most exotic visions of the imagination... History and allegory are expertly woven until finally both lead back to the chess garden itself, a place where ideas give way to vision, reason meets faith, and fact and figment are finally reconciled." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Hyman, Miles (jacket and interior art). 8vo. 481pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Title
- The Chess Garden, or The Twilight Letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven
- Author
- Hansen, Brooks
- Illustrator
- Hyman, Miles (jacket and interior art)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo. 481pp
- Bookseller catalogs
- Chess;
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