CHATWIN, Bruce ~ Utz. Signed by the author.

Jonathan Cape, London: 1988.

8vo., publisher's black boards, lettered in gilt to spine with Cape device to foot; complete in the unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (£9.95 net to front flap) featuring the 'Fool' card from a German tarot deck; THE BOOK essentially fine, with just a few tiny spots and bumps; THE WRAPPER in a similar condition, near-fine with just a hint of rubbing to the edges and folds. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. FIRST EDITION, second impression. This copy complete with a Sunday Times bookplate tipped-in to the front free endpaper, signed by Chatwin. The book also comes together with a Booker Prize bookmark from 1988. The author was terminally ill at the time of publication. A very interesting copy.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Near Fine