The Mystic Masseur
by NAIPAUL, V. S
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Andre Deutsch, 1957. Hardcover/Hardback. Fine. First edition, first impression. Edges a little dusty, otherwise VG in price-clipped dustwrapper, by Robert Micklewright, which is a little worn to the corners and head and tail of the spine. His first novel. 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, 1957
Synopsis
V. S. Naipaul lives in Wiltshire, England.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1155
- Title
- The Mystic Masseur
- Author
- NAIPAUL, V. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover/Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Date Published
- 1957
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
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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- Fine
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- Tail
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- VG
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- Edges
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