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The Suffrage of Elvira
by NAIPAUL, V. S
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Andre Deutsch, 1958. Hardcover/Hardback. Fine. First edition, first printing, Andre Deutsch, 1958. Very light foxing to top and fore edges, gilt title to spine a little dulled, and top and bottom extremities very slightly sunned, otherwise VG without inscriptions in near fine price-clipped dust-jacket (designed by Robert Micklewright.) A lovely copy of the author€™s rare second novel.The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 was awarded to V. S. Naipaul for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.Published: Andre Deutsch, 1958
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- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1157
- Title
- The Suffrage of Elvira
- Author
- NAIPAUL, V. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover/Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Date Published
- 1958
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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- VG
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- Sunned
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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