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A Turn In the South
by Naipaul, V.S
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- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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SANDY, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1989. First Edition. Full Leather. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. A beautiful brown tooled leather First Edition SIGNED by Nobel Prize-winning author, V.S. Naipaul. The author was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2001. In fine unread condition. With gold-gilt cover designs and page edges, and bound-in silk bookmark. By the author of "The Mystic Masseur," his first book, "The Middle Passage," "The House for Mr. Biswas," "The Suffrage of Elvira," and many others.
Synopsis
A Turn in the South is a travelogue of the American South written by Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul. His first book about the United States is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the hidden life and culture of the American South — from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill. The book was published in 1989 and is based upon the author's travels in the southern states of the U.S..
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- Bookseller
- Parrish Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 318
- Title
- A Turn In the South
- Author
- Naipaul, V.S
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1989
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About the Seller
Parrish Books
Biblio member since 2006
SANDY, Oregon
About Parrish Books
Parrish Books is a full-time on-line dealer in fine collectible books in business since 2002. With specialities in signed limited editions and many favorite authors including Ray Bradbury, Richard Bach, Tom Clancy, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Gorey and Maurice Sendak. We specialize in exceptional customer service and quality packaging of all orders.
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