The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch- in the West Indies and South America.
by NAIPAUL, V.S
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Macmillan,, 1963.. First US edition.. 232 pp. Bookseller ticket to front free endpaper, else very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with chipping to tips of flap folds, wear to base and crown of spine, and some light rubbing. Naipaul’s first non-fiction book.
Synopsis
V. S. Naipaul lives in Wiltshire, England.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38951
- Title
- The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch- in the West Indies and South America.
- Author
- NAIPAUL, V.S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Publisher
- NY: Macmillan,
- Date Published
- 1963.
Terms of Sale
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
Any book returnable for any reason within 10 days with prior notice. CA residents please add 9.5% sales tax. Libraries can be billed as needed.
About the Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Berkeley, California
About Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
Fine and rare books with an emphasis on 20th C. poetry, small press, literary magazines, broadsides, and interesting books in most fields.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...