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DESSAIX, ROBERT. Night Letters; A Journey through Switzerland and Italy
Sydney, Pan Macmillan. 1996, First Australian Edition. (ISBN: 0-7329-0851-5) Dark Blue Boards, 12mo - up to 7 ¾" tall - Duodecimo. Novel, 350 grammes; 276 pages, notes. Map illustrated endpapers, showing a map of both Switzerland and Italy. Dark blue coloured boards with white writing on the spine and small white printers' cartouche to the lower spine edge. Light rubbing to the spine corners. The internal pages and paper edges are somewhat brown. Illustrated dustwapper, showing Lion of Saint Mark by Carpaccio, with dark blue background and gilt writing on the front panel and spine. Small gilt and blue illustration to the front panel. Pink printers' cartouche to the lower spine edge. A little rubbing to the top and bottom dustwapper edges. The spine has become sun faded. The laminate had started to lift and the remains of the sticker can be seen to the lower right hand corner of the front panel. " Every night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man recently diagnosed with incurable disease writes a letter home to a friend. In these 20 letters he describes not only the kaleidoscopic journey he has just made from Switzerland across northern Italy to Venice, but reflects on questions of mortality, seduction and the search for paradise in a deeply life- enhancing ways." -- from the front fold over blurb. Digital image available upon request. Good/Reasonable -- Spine Faded.
Offered for AUD 15.00 = appr. US$ 13.76 by: Syber's Books - Book number: 0104478
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