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Andre Deutsch Limited , 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Green top page edges. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Couverture rigide. Bon/1964. in-8. London, 1964, in-8, 281pp, Reliure éditeur, jaquette illustrée, Très bel exemplaire!

London: Andre Deutsch, 1964-1990. First editions of each of the author's works in his acclaimed Indian Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Each volume is signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Each are fine in near fine to fine dust jackets. Trinidadian essayist and novelist V.S. Naipaul has won both the 1971 Booker Prize and the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature. An Area of Darkness is a travelogue detailing Naipaul's trip through India in the early sixties. "The world Naipaul sees is of course no void at all: it is a world dense with physical and social phenomena, brutally alive with the complications and contradictions of actual human endeavour... This world of Naipaul's is in fact charged with what can only be described as a romantic view of reality, an almost unbearable tension between the idea and the physical fact..." (The New York Review of Books).