Utz
by Chatwin, Bruce
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670824976
- ISBN 13
- 9780670824977
- Seller
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Decatur, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 1989 1st Am. ed. 154pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a Fine dj [some discoloration on endpp. where a prev. owner had tipped the dust jacket down with rubber cement; else a nice clean and crisp copy] A lapidary tale by the British writer Chatwin (1940-89).
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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- Bookseller
- Auldfarran Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15167
- Title
- Utz
- Author
- Chatwin, Bruce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1989 1st Am. ed.
- ISBN 10
- 0670824976
- ISBN 13
- 9780670824977
- Publisher
- New York: Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1989
- Keywords
- BRITISH FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Fiction;
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