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MAGIC SEEDS (SIGNED to Full Title Page)
by V. S. Naipaul (August 17, 1931 - August 11, 2018)
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0375407367
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407369
- Seller
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Monkton, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
HARDCOVER. SIGNED in Person at the Book Signing Event. MAGIC SEEDS by V. S. Naipaul (2004). (August 17, 1931 - August 11, 2018). SIGNED to the Full Title page by V. S. Naipaul, the author. Brand New-looking copy! This is a FIRST Edition, FIRST Printing copy as stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket is in Brand New condition with no issues. Book has no tears, marks, creases, remainder marks, library markings, or black lines on the edges. Not inscribed to anyone. Not price-clipped, not a Book Club Edition (BCE), or signed on a bookplate. True Collectible Quality. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED to the Full Title page. No inscription; full signature only. From an event featuring V. S. Naipaul at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on October 18, 2010. This book will be carefully wrapped and shipped with free delivery confirmation. ** Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. ** V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include Mystic Masseur (1957), for which he won the John Llewellyn Rys Memorial Prize; The Suffrage of Elvira (1958); Miguel Street (1959), for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award; A House for Mr. Biswas, (1961); Mr. Stone and the Knight's Companion (1963); The Mimic Men, (1967); A Flag on the Island (1967); In a Free State (1971), for which he was awarded the Booker Prize; Guerrillas (1975); A Bend in the River (1979); The Enigma of Arrival (1987); A Way in the World (1994); Half a Life (2001); and Magic Seeds (2004), plus many other works. Magic Seeds was published on November 16, 2004. ISBN: 978-0375-4073-69. BS13912.
Synopsis
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at Oxford he began to write, and since then he has followed no other profession. He is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction and nonfiction and the recipient of numerous honors, including the Nobel Prize in 2001, the Booker Prize in 1971, and a knighthood for services to literature in 1990. He lives in Wiltshire, England.
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- Bookseller
- Charm City Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BS13940
- Title
- MAGIC SEEDS (SIGNED to Full Title Page)
- Author
- V. S. Naipaul (August 17, 1931 - August 11, 2018)
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER w/ Dust Jacket Cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375407367
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407369
- Publisher
- Knopf; First Edition (November 16, 2004)
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Date Published
- Nov. 16, 2004
- Pages
- 288
- Size
- 5.93 x 1.08 x 8.69 inches
- Keywords
- Political Fiction, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED BOOKS;
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About the Seller
Charm City Books
Biblio member since 2004
Monkton, Maryland
About Charm City Books
I sell mostly Modern First Editions. Most of my inventory is Hand Signed First Edition/First Printing Hardcovers. I also carry a collection of Brand New & Like New, Signed and Unsigned Franklin Library & Easton Press Books. I will accept offers on any book I have. If your offer is accepted, you are committed to buy. I will then reduce the price of the item ON THIS SITE so you can purchase the item or book on this site using their check-out...
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