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Published by Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A., 1973
ISBN 10: 0394482905ISBN 13: 9780394482903
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: Very Good. 1st. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Published by Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A., 1973
ISBN 10: 0394482905ISBN 13: 9780394482903
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: Good. 1st. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Knopf December 1972, 1972
ISBN 10: 0394482905ISBN 13: 9780394482903
Seller: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. Dust stains on text edges. Book has remainder mark on text edge.
Published by Knopf, New York, 1973
ISBN 10: 0394482905ISBN 13: 9780394482903
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. DJ by Muriel Nasser (illustrator). 1st American Edition. 42833 shelf. Unread. Gold-stamped orange cloth. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. Collectible condition! 286 p. Book.
Published by Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, New York, NY, 1972
ISBN 10: 0394482905ISBN 13: 9780394482903
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition, First Printing. Text/As New & Bright. Gilt embossed orange linen boards. DJ/NF; w/scratches to lower back & creasings to inner flaps. PO stamp to lower text edge. A collection of narratives, some previously published, from novelist & historian V. S. Naipaul (1932 - 2018), a Trinidad British writer who wrote more 30 books. Known for his novel "Mr. Biwas" (1961), Naipaul was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad & Tobago's highest nat'l honour in 1989, knighthood in Britain in 1990, and, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. His grandparents left India to work in Trinidad's plantations as indentured servants and his father became a journalist. 286 pgs. Anthology of essays, linked thematically, of self-exiled people & the perplexities of displacement. The essays in four groups. I, An Unlikely Colonial; II, India; III, Looking Westward; and IV, Columbus and Crusoe. The final essay --- from which the title is derived --- is of Maurtius. A "barracoon" is an enclosure or barracks for temporary confinement of slaves & convicts. A deep, sensitive & powerful volume of trails of economic migration.
Published by Knopf, 1973
ISBN 10: 0394482905ISBN 13: 9780394482903
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition, First Printing. Text/As New & Bright. Gilt embossed orange linen boards. DJ/NF; w/scratches to lower back & creasings to inner flaps. PO stamp to lower text edge. A collection of narratives, some previously published, from novelist & historian V. S. Naipaul (1932 - 2018), a Trinidad British writer who wrote more 30 books. Known for his novel "Mr. Biwas" (1961), Naipaul was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad & Tobago's highest nat'l honour in 1989, knighthood in Britain in 1990, and, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. His grandparents left India to work in Trinidad's plantations as indentured servants and his father became a journalist. 286 pgs. Anthology of essays, linked thematically, of self-exiled people & the perplexities of displacement. The essays in four groups. I, An Unlikely Colonial; II, India; III, Looking Westward; and IV, Columbus and Crusoe. The final essay --- from which the title is derived --- is of Maurtius. A "barracoon" is an enclosure or barracks for temporary confinement of slaves & convicts. A deep, sensitive & powerful volume of trails of economic migration. Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973
ISBN 10: 0394482905ISBN 13: 9780394482903
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st US Edition; First Printing. First American edition/first printing in Very Good, sunned condition in alike dust-jacket, else Fine. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number and signature on front paste down; The Overcrowded Barracoon is a book by Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul. The book is a collection of essays, some of which were first published in magazines and newspapers. The essays explore the themes of colonialism, race, and identity.; 8vo.