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London: Geoffrey Bles, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 12mo; xi, 147 pages, brown cloth; short, closed tear to top panel of dj, which has some toning; original dj priced inked out. Nine essays on aspects of literature oft overlooked by critics, commentary on the Narnia series and the Perelandra series, three science fiction stories, and five chapters of his unfinished novel begun in 1959. With notes by Walter Hooper, Alastair Fowler, and Roger Lancelyn Green. [ Hooper 46].

Campbell, CA: Savas Publishing Co, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, viii, 485 pages, cloth; dj laminated With photographs and a Roster. Illustrated history of the "German" Regiment.

Yellow Brick Road Publishers, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. 8vo, 247 pages, red cloth with pictorial label The seventh book in his series, inspired by his great-grandfather, L. Frank Baum. This is the first book which Sean Coons chose to illustrate. Introduced by Ozian and famed entertainer, Gloria Estefan. Signed 12/11/1999 by Roger Baum, and for Toto, and Charlene (Mrs.) Baum.

London: Picador, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. 8vo, 227 pages, dark blue cloth Signed by Naipaul on the title-page - in the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ! "His level of perception is of the highest, and his prose has become the perfect instrument for realising those perceptions on the page," Martin Amis said.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/price-clipped. 8vo, 248 pages, clothbacked boards A novel set on a Caribbean island where everyone is a guerrilla. His first novel after winning The Booker Prize for Literature in 2001."Instead of diminishing life Naipaul ennobles it - Anthony Burgess."

London: Andre Deutsch, ( 1979 ). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/price-clipped. 8vo, 296 pages, greenish cloth, inked name on endpaper; Naipaul was to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. "His level of perception is of the highest, and his prose has become the perfect instrument for realising those perceptions on the page - Martin Amis." Curiously, the cover photo on the dj does not show a bend in the river !?

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."

New Delhi, India: Viking Penguin India, 1998. First Indian edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. 8vo, 439 pages, brown cloth; small, green sticker on rear panel. Surprisingly Scarce in this edition, which was Dust jacket price is 500 rupees. DJ blurbs by V. S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Hardwick, Michael Ratcliffe. "Printed by PUSP Print Services" on last page. A companion volume to his AMONG THE BELIEVERS: this is his observations on his travels in Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. "Beyond Belief is interesting and often perceptive, and offers real insights into the lives and experiences of these people. As narrative, it is an impressive achievement--but it is not only narrative. Despite Naipaul's surprising disclaimer that this is not "a book of opinion" or of "conclusions," it is very much both. Opinion and conclusion are reflected in the selection of stories and in their structure and tone; they are also evident in the editorial commentary scattered… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo, 211+ pages, red cloth, black boards; dj impressed where cloth meets the boards Signed by Naipaul on the title-page - in the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - while at the Chicago Humanities Festival, with the ticket stub laid in. "His level of perception is of the highest, and his prose has become the perfect instrument for realising those perceptions on the page," Martin Amis said.

New York: Macmillan, 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo, 281 pages, brown cloth, map endpapers, top edge stained orange-brown; inch tear at top of fold of front flap, both flaps creased. The son of Indian parents, Naipaul visits his ancestral nation, and reports on it in this, the first volume in his India trilogy: this one was promptly banned in India for its unflattering comments. He notes that India had rejected Mahatma Gandhi by making him a saint !

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, 276 pages, clothbacked boards This investigation of an elaborate botanical hoax perpetrated on the Isle of Rum, reads like a detective novel. "A poignant story of a long-dead botanist who achieved fame literally by planting his evidence - Tim Radford in The Guardian." WITH, a copy of the Advance Reading Copy.

Washington DC : Sabbagh Management Corporation, ( 1983 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 16mo, 84 pages, cloth Inscribed by Sabbagh "With sincere appreciation of your intellect, calm and innate diplomacy." "Your compilation of Arabic quotations is a fascinating collection. The quotations, together with the illuminating commentary, reveal the richness and wisdom of the culture that produced them. And you may quote me! " - Henry A. Kissinger. With a facsimile reproductions of the autographic note in 1982 to Isa Sabbagh from President Jimmy Carter.

West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, ( 1999 ). First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 233, [ii] pages, cloth Signed by Sabel, and dated 1999, under the portrait frontispiece. Sabel enlisted in April, 1941, and served three years as an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific. His 300 letters home offer a different view of the war - not of heroics and battle, but of war's tedium, discomfort, and inefficiency. Bored but never boring, Sabel is frank in his criticism of those in command as he is in affectionately scolding his mother for sending such perishables as strawberries and chocolate to the tropics. A farmer from Marshall County, Indiana, Sabel also managed a farm on Kalumbangara to supply the hospital an Munda with fresh fruits and vegetables.

New York: Pocket Books, 1980. First Wallaby printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo, 221 pages, red pictorial wrappers, remainder mark on bottom edge, 4 digits inked on top cover. Iintroduction by Gene Roddenberry. Sackett was his personal secretary, starting in 1974. Photogravures.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Duodecimo, 296 pages, light green cloth, inked 1931 inscription; dj splits at fold of flaps repaired with archival paper tape; chip at head of spine almost affecting the spine title. This is a study of extreme old age. The central character is the wido of an ex-Viceroy and Prime Minister. [Woolmer, HOGARTH PRESS, 270 - 4040 copies printed ].

New York: Viking Studio, 1989. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Quarto, 221 pages, green cloth "The creation of a beautiful garden is issentially a romantic endeavor involving imagination and whimsy, horticultural knowledge and fervor, and, above all, faith." Includes a few recipes.

NY: Dutton, (1983). First edition. Paperback. fine, wrappers. 8vo, 412 pages Advance Uncorrected Proof

New York: Katherine Tegen Books, ( 2005 ). First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Thick 12mo, 564 pages, two-tone boards Author's first novel. " MAGYK is a book full of wonders, charms, and surprises. Beautifully written and richly imagined, it invires us into a world we never want to leave. Marvelous." - Clive Barker.

( Cambridge UK ): Prickly Pear Press, ( 1993 ). First Edition. stapled wrappers. Very Good. 16mo, 21 pages, white wrappers a bit soiled Prickly Pear Pamphlet No. 2. Sahlins was a University of Chicago anthropologist. " WAITING FOR FOUCAULT " might be said to be a structuralist's rejoinder to the post-structuralist vogue which swept through anthropology in recent years. It was given as an after-dinner speech at the fourth decennial conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists held at Oxford in July, 1993." "The pamphlets will be provocative and entertaining, cheap and pocket-sized. Like the prickly pear, they will come in several colours - red, yellow, green and more besides."

Edinburgh: Willilam Blackwood & Sons, 1949. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavos, cloth From the earliest texts to the present day.