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Miguel Street
by Naipaul, V. S
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1959. Hardcover. No jacket. First edition. Light marks and scores on boards and spine. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are bumped and worn, affecting pages. Minor nick on spine head. Pen on page block foot. Page block and a few pages are lightly marked. Label residue on rear pastedown. Text is clear throughout. Volume is cocked and binding is visible on a few pages but remains intact. HCW. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used.
Synopsis
Miguel Street is a semi-autobiographical novel by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote it while employed at the BBC using a BBC typewriter and "rustle-free paper. " Miguel Street won the 1961 Somerset Maugham Award.
Reviews
On Apr 26 2009, Degrasse said:
My son uses Miguel Street in school as a literature text book. He finds the book very interesting and fun to read.
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- Bookseller
- PsychoBabel & Skoob Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Miguel Street
- Author
- Naipaul, V. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
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