SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1976* Publisher: Penguin.* Binding and cover condition: Line drawn illustration in orange, black and white, soft card covers. No bumps, light rubs & minor shelf wear to edges & corners. Single reading crease & dish to spine. Slightly aged. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Medium tanning throughout including all edges. GD++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 309 pp. text. iii pp. advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Drawn together by a single theme - the culture and politics of the "barracoon" - V.S. Naipaul collection of essays touches on subjects as diverse as Indian society, John Steinbeck, the origins of the Trinidad Carnival, Norman Mailer and Black Power. The essays evoke attitudes of disenchantment, self-deception and oppression.* This is a NEAR VG copy of the 1st./1st. thus with light shelf wear & some tanning reducing it to GD++*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4944
Title: The Overcrowded Barracoon
Author: Naipaul, V. S
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - GD++/GD++/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0140041281
ISBN 13: 9780140041286
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Place of Publication: London UK 320
Date Published: 1976-05-27
Size: 17.8 x 11 x 1.8 cm

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