The Loss of El Dorado
by NAIPAUL, V. S
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0233961429
- ISBN 13
- 9780233961422
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Andre Deutsch, 1969. Hardcover/Hardback. Fine. First edition, first impression. Light foxing to edges, otherwise fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 was awarded to V. S. Naipaul for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.Published: Andre Deutsch, 1969
Synopsis
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at Oxford he began to write, and since then he has followed no other profession. He is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction and the recipient of numerous honors, including the Nobel Prize in 2001, the Booker Prize in 1971, and a knighthood for services to literature in 1990. He lives in Wiltshire, England.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1165
- Title
- The Loss of El Dorado
- Author
- NAIPAUL, V. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover/Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0233961429
- ISBN 13
- 9780233961422
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
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About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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