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Tumatumari
by Wilson Harris
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good, frayed and rubbed to head of spine and rear board, otherwise lightly soiled, foxed. Binding sound./Very Good jacket, edgeworn including shallow chipping, some soiling, unclipped and clean otherwise.
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover in red cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 156 pp. 12mo. In dust jacket. Very Good, frayed and rubbed to head of spine and rear board, otherwise lightly soiled, foxed. Binding sound./Very Good jacket, edgeworn including shallow chipping, some soiling, unclipped and clean otherwise.. Early novel from the revered and prolific Guyanese author, who has somehow remained out of print in the United States. This copy inscribed to Anna Rutherford, who organized the first European conference on the British Commonwealth novel and spent her career promoting and publishing indigenous writers under European colonial rule, including work by Wilson Harris (Commonwealth, 1971). Her journal Kunapipi was regarded as the premier post-colonial literary journal in Europe.
Harris' inscription in blue ink to title page reads as such: "For Anna / with kindest wishes and affection / Wilson / Aarhus April 1973". It was likely that Harris was staying with Rutherford at her home in Aarhus, Denmark, as she was well-known for opening it to all visiting writers.
Harris' inscription in blue ink to title page reads as such: "For Anna / with kindest wishes and affection / Wilson / Aarhus April 1973". It was likely that Harris was staying with Rutherford at her home in Aarhus, Denmark, as she was well-known for opening it to all visiting writers.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000
- Title
- Tumatumari
- Author
- Wilson Harris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in red cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 156 pp. 12mo. In dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, frayed and rubbed to head of spine and rear board, otherwise lightly soiled, foxed. Binding sound.
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good jacket, edgeworn including shallow chipping, some soiling, unclipped and clean otherwise.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
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About the Seller
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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