THE LOSS OF EL DORADO - A HISTORY
by Naipaul, V.S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Andre Deutsch, 1969. 334 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with b/w plate, a plan of the town of Port of Spain. Pages v/g condition, clean. Beige endpapers illustrated with maps. Brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Head of spine and top edges lightly bumped. Brown dust jacket not price clipped. VG+/VG+. 1st UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.
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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- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028926
- Title
- THE LOSS OF EL DORADO - A HISTORY
- Author
- Naipaul, V.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- History, Trinidad
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- VG+/VG+
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- Edges
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- Plate
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- Good+
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