United Kingdom: Reprint Society. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. BOOK CLUB EDITION - A very good hardcover in a very good dustwrapper. The book is in clean green boards with very slightly bumped corners, the spine with bright gilt lettering is slightly bumped to the ends, internally no writing or stamps, unmarked pages. The dustwrapper is a little aged and toned to the spine and very slightly creased and rubbed to the edges - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 52x75 .

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A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent. -Publisher’s Website

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Seller: The Old Bookshelf (GB)
Seller's Inventory #: 49831
Title: AN AREA OF DARKNESS.
Author: Naipaul, V S
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: Book Club Edition
Publisher: Reprint Society
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
Date Published: 1966
Keywords: General Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: General Fiction;

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Dustwrapper: Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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....