Search Results: The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles by V S Naipaul

New York: Knopf, 1973. Tiny stain to rear cover, else fine in bright, very good dust jacket, nicked at spine ends, vertical crease to front flap. 1ST U.S. ED.. Hard Cover.

Deutsch, 1972-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.2000 in x 8.4000 in x 5.4000 in. First edition. Jacket intact, slight edgewear; in clear protective sleeve. Dark spots of foxing on edges, moderate foxing to first few dozen pages, afterwards clear inside. Binding sound.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1972. 286 pages. Dust jacket is bright and clean, minimal rubbing to edges, not price clipped. Looks good in protective plastic cover. Black textured paper on boards binding with gold gilt lettering is in lovely clean condition. Gift inscription to former owner on inside of front cover. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.. Hard Cover. V. Good/V. Good.

New York: Knopf, 1973. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 286 pp. Binding tight and square, text clean. Slight spotting to fore edge of text block else a fine copy. Dust jacket is price-clipped and slightly sunned at the spine.

Penguin Books 1984. Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

NY: Knopf, 1973., 1973. 8vo. 286 pp. Original orange cloth binding. Remainder mark bottom edge else this is a fine book in a bright, fine DJ.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

(London): Andre Deutsch, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some edgewear.

New York, NY: Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, 1972. First American Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/As New & Bright. Gilt embossed orange linen boards. DJ/NF; w/scratches to lower back & creasings to inner flaps. PO stamp to lower text edge. A collection of narratives, some previously published, from novelist & historian V. S. Naipaul (1932 - 2018), a Trinidad British writer who wrote more 30 books. Known for his novel "Mr. Biwas" (1961), Naipaul was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad & Tobago's highest nat'l honour in 1989, knighthood in Britain in 1990, and, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. His grandparents left India to work in Trinidad's plantations as indentured servants and his father became a journalist. 286 pgs. Anthology of essays, linked thematically, of self-exiled people & the perplexities of displacement. The essays in four groups. I, An Unlikely Colonial; II, India; III, Looking Westward; and IV,… Read More

London: Deutsch (1972)., 1972. First English edition. Name front free endpaper else a fine book in a bright, fine DJ.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

London : André Deutsch, (1972). First edition. A collection of essays and articles - Naipaul on being an Indian West Indian, on London, on cricket, on India, on John Steinbeck and Monterey, on Norman Mailer and New York, on Jacques Soustelle, on St. Kitts, on Anguilla, on Mauritius, etc. Demy 8vo (22cm). 286,[ii]pp. Original navy boards, ruled, blocked and lettered in gilt; a touch of sunning to spine, but a very good copy in the original Peter Freeman dust-jacket - a design in blue, yellow, cerise and white - just slightly creased on an inner flap, but otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Very good. Alfred A. Knopf, 1973, 1st American Edition, 286 pages, a nice hardcover in a very good unclipped dust jacket, light wear, no underlining or owner's mark.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London : Deutsch, 1972. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 286 pages; Physical desc. : 286 p. ; 22 cm. Subject: Indic authors (English)India - Description and travel - 20th century. General essays in English - Texts. Essays in English - texts.

(London): Andre Deutsch, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Ownership signature and date, else fine in fine dustwrapper.

NY: KNOPF.. Fine. 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition. About fine in close to fine dust jacket. (1/4"-inch tear at head of front cover of DJ. Next to fore edge. Tad musty overall. ) .

Deutsch, 1972-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

THE OVERCROWDED BARRACOON AND OTHER ARTICLES, Deutsch, 1972, first edition, spine somewhat lightened, else very good plus to near fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof. NOBEL LAUREATE.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First American Edition, first printing. Signed by Naipaul on the title page. Comes with a 92nd Street YMCA (in New York) program (folded) for its 2010 reading series, where Naipaul is prominently featured. The best of Naipaul's political and personal journalism of the previous 15 years. Uncommon to come across a signed copy!. 8vo., orange cloth in dust jacket; 286 pages. Very Good (covers nice & bright; contents clean & tight); near fine d/j. A very nice copy!