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Naipaul, V.S.. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch, 1984.

Price: US$5.88 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine, export edition without price on DJ.

Seller: Laurel Reed Books, Stratford, ON, Canada

Naipaul, V.S.. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch Limited, London, 1984.

Price: US$10.40 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The boards are clean and unmarked. Scattered dark brown spotting to top edges of the pages and light spotting to the fore edges. Pages slightly browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has slight edge rubbing and browning to the top edges of the rear panel and the flaps. First printing.

Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom

Naipaul, V. S.. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch, London, 1984.

Price: US$11.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First printing. Contains two essays: "Prologue to Autobiography" -- "Crocodiles of Yamoussoukro." Naipaul won the Booker Award and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Faint sticker shadow on front pastedown, dustjacket spine sunned, else a clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

Seller: Great Northern Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Naipaul. V.S.. Finding The Centre. Andre Deutsch 1984 (1st UK), 1984.

Price: US$12.36 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine in a Fine d/w.

Seller: CHRIS MARTIN MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, Pleasley, United Kingdom

Naipaul, V.S.. FINDING THE CENTRE. Two Narratives.. Andre Deutsch, 1984., 1984.

Price: US$12.88 + shipping

Description: 1st edition. 8vo. 189pp. Some marginal browning, original boards, d/w. slightly rubbed with some fading to spine. ISBN 0233976647 US$12

Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom

V. S. Naipaul. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch, London, 1984.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st printing (1984). 189pp. VG/VG copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector

Seller: Object Relations, IOBA, London, United Kingdom

Naipaul V.S:. Finding the Centre Two Narratives. London Andre Deutsch Limited, 1984.

Price: US$14.30 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover book. First edition in dustjacket. 189 pages Two personal narrative pieces that are both about the process of writing. Very Good in near Fine dustjacket. Slight darkening to top page edgesand pages slightly tanned. No inscriptions. Dustjacket is not clipped . Very slight sunning to spine. Pictures available.

Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom

V.S. Naipaul. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch,Deutscher Buecherbund, London, 1984.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo pp. 189.

Seller: Edmonton Book Store, Edmonton, AB, Canada

V.S. Naipaul. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch,Deutscher Buecherbund, London, 1984.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo pp. 189.

Seller: Edmonton Book Store, Edmonton, AB, Canada

NAIPAUL, V.S.. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch 1984, 1984.

Price: US$15.38 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION; octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

Naipaul, V.S.. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch, London, 1984.

Price: US$15.60 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing hard cover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. From the collection of W.L. Webb, the Guardian's literary editor for many years, this is a review copy, slip laid in. General shelf and handling wear, including tanning, foxing and creasing to DJ, inside and out, bumping to board corners, and tanning to pageblock, leading into page edges. Within, pages are tightly bound, and content is unmarked. CN

Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom

Naipaul, V. S.. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch, 1984.

Price: US$15.60 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st edition/1st impression. Without inscription in price clipped dust jacket, which is now protected by a removable transparent wrapper.

Seller: Mike Conry, WORCESTER, United Kingdom

NAIPAUL, V.S.. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives.. London, Andre Deutsch 1984., 1984.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Hardcover. A brief gift inscription (in Swedish?) on the corner of the front free endpaper, top edge slightly foxed, otherwise very good in very good dustjacket.

Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia

NAIPAUL V S. FINDING THE CENTRE. ANDRE DEUTSCH FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1984, 1984.

Price: US$23.49 + shipping

Description: HB BLUE BOARDS FINE PP189 DW FINE 8V0 Two pieces: one autobiographical, the other on the Ivory Coast

Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia

NAIPAUL, V.S.. Finding The Centre. Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch, (London), 1984.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Pages are a little age toned else fine in fine dustwrapper.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Naipaul, V.S.. FINDING THE CENTER, Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch, London, 1984.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: (1984), pp., 188, (1), in mylar protective d.j. The two personal narrative pieces in this volume are both about the process of writing Size: 8 Vo.,

Seller: Harry E Bagley Books Ltd, Fredericton, NB, Canada

Naipaul, V.S.. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives.. London: Andre Deutsch, 1984., 1984.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Blue boards; text age-toned. Bluish-purple decorative dust jacket, with just a hint of sunning to spine. Fine.

Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada

V. S. Naipaul. Finding the Centre - Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch, London, 1984.

Price: US$26.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very good tight copy in dust wrapper, some age tanning/spotting to top page edges.

Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom

NAIPAUL,V.S.. Finding the Centre. Andre Deutsch, London, 1984.

Price: US$26.63 + shipping

Description: 8vo.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

Naipaul, V.S.. Finding the Center_ Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch, London, 1984.

Price: US$27.79 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: navy cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 189 pp, first edition Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France

Naipaul, V.S.. FINDING THE CENTRE - TWO NARRATIVES. Deutsch, Andre, 1984.

Price: US$28.75 + shipping

Description: 189 pages Export Edition, no price on flap of DJ. Personal narrative pieces about the process of writing. . Pages and endpapers are clean, good condition. Navy blue cloth, gilt title on spine. BLue and white DJ with white and yellow titles. VG+/VG+

Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada

NAIPAUL, V. S.. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch, (London), 1984.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Naipaul, V. S.. Finding the Centre: Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch London 1984, 1984.

Price: US$32.40 + shipping

Description: 1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo. 189pp., Little sunned at spine o/w a nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket

Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Naipaul, V.S.. Finding the Centre. Andre Deutsch, 1984.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First UK edition. Fine in a fine jacket. Edgeblock of book has the usual toning else fine.

Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.

Naipaul, V.S.. Finding the Centre. Two Narratives.. Andre Deutsch Limited, London, 1984.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in dark blue textured paper covered boards, in a Fine blue and goldenrod dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 189pp. Textblock toning slightly, as usual. Nobel Prize. Q07211

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

NAIPAUL, V.S. [Vidiadhar Surajprasad] (born 1932). Finding the Centre. London: Andre Deutsch, 1984, 1984.

Price: US$45.51 + shipping

Description: [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.189; [3], blank. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Fine in like jacket.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Naipaul, V. S.. FINDING THE CENTRE. Andre Deutsch, London, 1984.

Price: US$52.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.

Naipaul V.S.. Finding the Centre. André Deutsch Limited, London, 1984.

Price: US$63.58 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: André Deutsch Limited, London, 1984. ISBN: 0 233 97664 7 First edition book with dust jacket. As a post-colonial author who usually discusses the problems of freedom, in this novel he embraces the people and places visited instead, without being judgmental. Book in tight and very good condition. 189 pp., 14 x 22 cm. Shipping weight 530 gr.

Seller: finestfinds.ch, Geneva, Switzerland

V.S.Naipaul. Finding the Centre:Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch, London, 1984.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine first British edition of this book by the now famous author. Book contains two stories built around the process of writing. Book does show some age toning as is common with British issues. Jacket shows some minor dirt and a bump to the rear panel from some pressure applied at some point. Still a nice copy of an early work by this author and a great insight into his thoughts on writing. Shipped in a Brodart cover for protection.

Seller: BDC Books, Stratford, ON, Canada

NAIPAUL, V.S.. Finding The Centre - Two Narratives. Andre Deutsch, London, 1984.

Price: US$333.50 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near fine first edition in fine dustwrapper (small book seller's label at base of front flap. Light evenly tanned pages, as usual. Signed by Naipaul in blue ink above his name on the title page. This was signed at a literary luncheon in Australia. Early signed works by this author are scarce indeed.A very presentable copy.

Seller: MANOR COLLECTABLES, WOODHALL SPA, LINCS, United Kingdom