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A Way in the World
by V.S Naipaul
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0394564782
- ISBN 13
- 9780394564784
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 380 pages, clothbacked boards; dj flap creased
An account of a Trinidadian revolutionary, illuminating the history of the Spanish and British occupations of the Caribbean. Naipaul was to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001."Instead of diminishing life Naipaul ennobles it - Anthony Burgess."
An account of a Trinidadian revolutionary, illuminating the history of the Spanish and British occupations of the Caribbean. Naipaul was to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001."Instead of diminishing life Naipaul ennobles it - Anthony Burgess."
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4580
- Title
- A Way in the World
- Author
- V.S Naipaul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394564782
- ISBN 13
- 9780394564784
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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