A Bend In the River

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1979 First edition, first printing Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt. With the dust jacket Cloth a trifle marked but a very good copy in the somewhat beaten-up dust jacket. A presentation copy with the author's typically terse presentation inscription to the title page, "V S. Naipaul for Al Murray". Naipaul recalls in A Turn in the South, "I was given the name of a writer who had been educated at Tuskegee, Al Murray. He was, or had been, a protégé of Ralph Ellison's, and he lived in New York…He was a brown man, and older than I had thought…Al had just turned seventy…His sitting room was full of books and records. A moment's looking showed that the books were a serious collection of twentieth-century American writing in first or very early editions."Al Murray, a Tuskegee-educated writer on jazz and one of those interviewed in "A Turn in the South," would later say, "Naipaul is like a satellite in orbit. He's got an objectivity that no one else has, and he knows that the past is an albatross." Proper inscribed, literary association copies of Naipaul's works are distinctly uncommon. [142]

London: Andre Deutsch, 1979. First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. In response to A Bend In the River, John Updike praised Naipaul as, "a master of fictional landscape, who here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for understanding social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit." A Bend in the River is listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.

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U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Copyright date 1979, 1st edition, 1st printing. Black cloth over boards with gold lettering and design on the front and on the spine. For edge and bottom page edges are not cut, light foxing to the top page edges also to the inside front and back covers. No tears, bent pages, nor any writing. Shelf wear to the edges and to the head and told the spine are moderate with light bumps to the toe of the spine. Dust jacket no bent flaps, nor is it price clipped. Shelf wear to the edges and to the head and told the spine, with chips out of the head and toe of the spine light soiling spot on the back near the for edge lower left. Light Browning to the spine from sun, with wear along the front groove area with 2 small chips out. Dust jacket is now in a clear protective cover. Text is bright and clean, binding is secure, a solid collectible book one the top 100 novels of the 20th century.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Collectible.

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Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. First edition thus. Leather-bound. Fine. Octavo. 278pp. Full red leather, stamped in gold. SIGNED COLLECTOR'S EDITION, signed by the author. With the signed certificate of authenticity.

Easton Press, 2000., 2000.. Fine.. Full red leather, decoratively gilt. Signed by the author with certificate of authenticity.

London: London, Deutsch,, 1979. Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Very light spotting to top edge of text block. An excellent copy in a slightly toned jacket with faint dampstaining to bottom edge. First edition, first impression.

Penguin Books, 1982-01-01. Paperback. New unread, remainder mark. minor shelf wear, otherwise excellent condition.

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