Miguel Street
by Naipaul, V. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG-
- Seller
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Commack, New York, United States
Item Price
$80.00$68.00
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: The Vanguard Press. VG/VG-. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. First American Edition. Spine is a little cocked, DJ has some small chips. ; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 160 pages .
Synopsis
Miguel Street is a semi-autobiographical novel by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote it while employed at the BBC using a BBC typewriter and "rustle-free paper. " Miguel Street won the 1961 Somerset Maugham Award.
Reviews
On Apr 26 2009, Degrasse said:
My son uses Miguel Street in school as a literature text book. He finds the book very interesting and fun to read.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mostly Useful Fictions (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35709
- Title
- Miguel Street
- Author
- Naipaul, V. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; First Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Vanguard Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1960
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mostly Useful Fictions
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Commack, New York
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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....