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V S Naipaul. Magic Seeds. Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$8.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 440 grams. Ninth impression.
Seller: Book Souk, Porstoy, United Kingdom
NAIPAUL, V.S.. MAGIC SEEDS. Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$10.97 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 294pp; D/w bears small closed blade cut to rear else a fine copy; Size: 8vo
Seller: Weathered Stone Books, Skreen, SLIGO, Ireland
NAIPAUL, V S. Magic Seeds. picador 2004 london, 2004.
Price: US$12.20 + shipping
Description: uncorrected proof copy first edition octavo light card covers 294pp FINE
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Naipaul, V. S.. Magic Seeds. Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$12.72 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: DJ has minute split to top back, mended inside with minute bit of clear tape.No inscriptions. No clipping.
Seller: Black Box Books, ASHFORD, United Kingdom
S. Naipaul, V.. Magic Seeds. Picador, London, UK, 2004.
Price: US$12.72 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing. Well bound in black cloth covered boards with gilt titling to spine. Corners and spine ends all fine. Text pages and eps are all clean with no markings or inscriptions, and the book appears unread. D/J is unclipped and protected in a removable clear cover. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.
Seller: James Hulme Books, Stourbridge, United Kingdom
Naipaul V.S. Magic Seeds. Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$13.62 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 293 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.
Seller: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
Naipaul, V. S.. Magic Seeds. Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$15.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. First edition, first printing, in unclipped, mylar-protected jacket. Previous owner's name penned on FEP, otherwise very good throughout. TS
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V. S.. Magic Seeds : First printing. Picador, London, United Kingdom, 2004.
Price: US$16.47 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: True first British printing (full print run includes '1'). With original unclipped jacket (£16.99). Jacket has very minor patchy edge/shelf wear, the odd very small mark and minor pushing to head/tail of spine and to corners. Boards are near fine with minor pushing to a couple of corners and a hint of pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. Pages (especially the tops) are a bit tanned. Light crease to top corner of a few pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V.S.. Magic Seeds. London; Picador;, 2004.
Price: US$19.08 + shipping
Description: Proof copy. Fine in glossy wrappers. Paperback.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V.S.. Magic Seeds. London; Picador;, 2004.
Price: US$19.08 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
V. S. Naipaul. Magic Seeds. Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$24.81 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 1st Impression, unread, mint condition, not price clipped (£16.99), no owner's name or other inscription, D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve.
Seller: MHO - Collectors' Books, Fittleworth, Pulborough, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V. S.. Magic Seeds (British 1st Edition). Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: London, Picador, 2004. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
V. S. Naipaul. Magic Seeds. Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine first edition copy of V. S. Naipaul's last novel, a moving novel about a transplanted Indian man in Europe. The first edition, first impression, of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.The sequel to 'Half a Life', 'Magic Seeds' begins with Willie Somerset Chandran living with his sister in Berlin, fleeing an unnamed African country after a revolution.Written by V. S. Naipaul, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. Dustwrapper is near fine with light marks and edgewear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V. S.. Magic Seeds. Picador, London, UK, 2004.
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: A true UK first edition / first printing, with the number sequence 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page. A wonderful copy of this fabulous and subtle novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize. No marks, dedications or bookplates, and the price is unclipped. The dark blue boards are pristine, and the book block tight and square. All of our books are protected by a removable plastic cover, and sent with care.
Seller: bluemanbooks, Ludlow, United Kingdom
V. S. Naipaul. Magic Seeds. Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Picador 2004 First Edition first impression. Signed by author to title page, very slight lean otherwise Fine in Fine unclipped dustjacket. A handsome tight clean copy which appears to be unread, presented in a clear removable protective sleeve
Seller: Blackbird First Editions, Bolton, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V. S.. Magic Seeds UK FIRST EDITION. Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd., 2004.
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd. London, 2004. Hardcover. Threadsewn Binding. pp 294. UK FIRST EDITION. AS NEW and an UNREAD copy. OUT OF PRINT. Printed lithographically in black cloth stamped in gold on the spine. Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed along the very top and bottom edges. The dust jacket is otherwise in Fine condition. Please see the photographs attached to my listing to verify the condition of this book. Magic Seeds Synopsis: SYNOPSIS: Willie Chandran is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early forties, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the encouragement of his sister and his own listlessness and joins an underground movement in India. But years of revolutionary campaigns and then prison convince him that the revolution had nothing to do with what we were fighting for, and he feels himself further than ever from his own history. When he returns to Britain where, thirty years before, his wanderings began, Willie encounters a country that has turned its back on its past and, like him, has become detached from its own history. He endures the indignities of a culture dissipated by reform and compromise until, in a moment of grotesque revelation a tour de force of parodic savagery from our most visionary of writers Willie comes to an understanding that might finally allow him to release his true self. REVIEWS: A radical further step in one of the great imaginative careers of our time . . . Magic Seeds demands our attention, and nothing more authoritative will be published this year, Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph. A novel that has subtlety, originality, shattering emotion and unmatched precision of language, Observer. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Language: eng
Seller: Wish-Fulfilling Tree Books, London, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V. S.. Magic Seeds. Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$62.33 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: This is the scarce UK proof copy (Advance Reading Copy) of this important novel, in which the author turns his gaze on the issue of terrorism. The sequel to 'Half A Life'. By the Booker Prize and Nobel Prize-winning author of 'A House For Mr Biswas'. Stunning condition. Dazzlingly white pages. Rarely seen in its British version, especially so pristine.
Seller: bluemanbooks, Ludlow, United Kingdom
NAIPAUL, V.S.. MAGIC SEEDS. Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description:
Seller: Euclid Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Naipaul, V.S.. Magic Seeds. London; Picador;, 2004.
Price: US$76.32 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Naipaul. V.S.. Magic Seeds.. London: Picador, 2004., 2004.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. ** Signed by the author. ** As new, in gilt lettered black boards, and colour photo-pictorial (handling seeds) dust jacket. Continues the story from the author's Half a Life.
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
Naipaul, V. S.. Magic Seeds - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: An attractive first edition/first printing in Very Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author V. S. Naipaul directly on the title page; In this sequel to Half A Life, the peripatetic life of Willie Chandran continues as he joins an underground movement in India ostensibly devoted to helping the lower castes. After 7 years of fighting and some time in jail, Willie is disillusioned and returns to London where he begins to discover his true self; 8vo; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 1st Printing. Signed. 294 pages. Published in 2004. The author's fourteenth and final novel. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the American Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents V. S. Naipaul's "Magic Seeds". The ostensible sequel to "Half A Life". Tantalizing chapters originally appeared in The New Yorker Magazine. "A stunning novel of the present moment that takes us into the hearts and minds of those who use terrorism as an ideal and a way of life. A moving tale of a man searching for his life and fearing he has wasted it. Its spare, elegant prose sizzles with devastating psychological analysis, bleak humor, and astonishing characters" (Publisher's blurb). Writing about what is peripheral, he re-defines what is central. Naipaul makes the margins of modern life, his lifelong subject, become the center. "Plot is for those who already know the world; narrative is for those who want to discover it. This is what I would ask of the writer: How much of the modern world does his work contain?" (V. S. Naipaul). "The greatest writer of English prose" (London Observer). Bar none. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul died on August 11, 2018 at the age of 85. An absolute "must-have" title for V. S. Naipaul collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by V. S. Naipaul. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Authentic signed Naipauls are rare. He has always been an elusive and reluctant signer. Most signed copies of his books are of the Limited Editions (on a tipped-in page). Signed copies of the regular First Editions (on the title page) are actually much more scarce than the former. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 for "In A Free State". Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER V. S. NAIPAUL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0330485202.
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
V. S. Naipaul. Magic Seeds. Picador, London, UK, 2004.
Price: US$113.85 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Book & Jacket No Flaws, Signed ,First Edition UK First Print, in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
NAIPAUL, V. S.. Magic Seeds. Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. A novel that continues the story of Willie Chandran from Half a Life. Naipaul received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. Fine in fine dustjacket. Signed by Naipaul.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Naipaul, V.S.. Magic Seeds. Picador, 2004.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Picador, 2004. First Edition (copyright page has 1 on the number sequence). SIGNED by the author on the title page. Book fine, in fine dust jacket. DJ flap price reads ¿16.99.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Naipaul, V. S.. Magic Seeds (Signed 1st Edition). Picador, London, 2004.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: London, Picador, 2004. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
NAIPAUL Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad. Magic Seeds. , 2004.
Price: US$274.76 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Picador. Inscribed by the author to the title page: ?V.S. Naipul for Roger 18.9.04? From the Library of Roger Katz. A fine copy.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom