Fireflies
by NAIPAUL, Shiva
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Original black cloth, stamped in red and gilt, top edge stained yellow, with striking pictorial dust jacket; plain endpapers; [iv],436,4]pp. Tight and clean, boards lightly bowed: Very Good or better. Jacket unclipped (priced $7.95), rubbed along upper edge, lightly yellowed at edges: Very Good or better. First novel of Shiva Naipaul, younger brother of V. S. Naipaul; winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize from the Royal Society of Literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56741
- Title
- Fireflies
- Author
- NAIPAUL, Shiva
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...