India: A Wounded Civilization
by Naipaul, V. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Top edge of boards lightly faded, jacket lightly soiled, with one small closed tear.
- ISBN 10
- 039440291X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394402918
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Top edge of boards lightly faded, . jacket lightly soiled, with one small closed tear.. 1977. First Printing. Hardcover. 039440291X . Blue paper quarter-bound in black cloth with deckled fore-edge. xi, 191pp. Foreword. A product of the clearest vision and the most passionate concern, it should stand as the most important and revealing book about India we shall have in our time. (rear jacket flap) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
V. S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then he has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas , A Bend in the River and A Turn in the South , and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son . He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56566
- Title
- India: A Wounded Civilization
- Author
- Naipaul, V. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Top edge of boards lightly faded, jacket lightly soiled, with one small closed tear.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 039440291X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394402918
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- 039440291X, INDIA, Nobel Laureates
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asia;
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