On the Black Hill figure Arctic Bibliography 13226

Arctic Bibliography 13226

An account of the Serbo-Turkish war of 1876

and she was encouraged to write down her gardening advice

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A few spots of foxing to endpapers and the titlepage which is printed in red and black

On the Black Hill figure Arctic Bibliography 13226London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First Edition. Hardback in the excellent and unclipped dust jacket. 249 pages. A fine copy, without inscriptions. Chatwin's bleak novel set in the hills of Radnorshire on the border between England and mid Wales. It tackles various themes including unrequited love, sexual repression and confusion, social, religious and cultural internalism. The book was voted winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1982.