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Naipaul, V. S.. Miguel Street. Andre Deutsch Limited, London, 1959.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No jacket. First edition. Light marks and scores on boards and spine. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are bumped and worn, affecting pages. Minor nick on spine head. Pen on page block foot. Page block and a few pages are lightly marked. Label residue on rear pastedown. Text is clear throughout. Volume is cocked and binding is visible on a few pages but remains intact. HCW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V.S.. Miguel Street. Andre Deutsch, London, 1959.
Price: US$68.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 222 pages. Stated first edition of the author's 3rd book, his first short story collection. Original black cloth covers are clean, slight bit of bump at bottom edge, spine gilt faded but legible, very slight bit of cocking to the spine causing front board to be just a skosh proud. Original book seller's sticker on inside front cover stuck to the free end paper causing a thinning and lack at that bottom edge at the gutter, as well the first free leaf and the half title have a small crease at bottom fore-edge with a very short tear, otherwise clean and unmarked, binding tight. Paper has a bit of toning. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Leaf and Stone Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
NAIPAUL, V. S.. Miguel Street. Andre Deutsch 1959, 1959.
Price: US$168.13 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, small octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 222pp, VG (light scuffing, v. sli. soiling, to boards; light tanning and soiling to edges and contents, binding ever so slightly coacked) in d/w VG (small, unobtrusive closed tears and chipping, tiny patch of surface loss at front corner, hint of water damge at that site also, light fading to spine, light soiling and tanning overall)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Naipaul, V.S. Miguel Street. Andre Deutsch, 1959.
Price: US$314.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition 1st printing hardback in unclipped jacket. Book in VG/VG+ condition, with no inscriptions, age toned text block.Jacket bright with just a bit of wear and slight loss of spine. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request.
Seller: Mungobooks, Poole, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V. S.. Miguel Street.. Andre Deutsch, London, 1959.
Price: US$355.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 286 pages VG/G. Very good book with spine slightly canted in good dust jacket with light shelf wear, several short edge tears, light soiling, pages slightly browned.
Seller: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia
NAIPAUL, V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad). Miguel Street. Andre Deutsch, London, 1959.
Price: US$609.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 222pp. Black cloth hardcover in illustrated jacket. Cover illustration by Stephen Russ. 1st Edition. Jacket's edges are a little worn, with some minor chipping at the head and tail of the spine. There is a closed, 1cm tear to the jacket's front cover. Its spine is a little faded. The book itself is very slightly cocked and its boards a little browned. The contents are clean, clear and bright, with only the most modest suggestion of tanning. Previous owner's signature on first free front endpaper. The jacket is unclipped. Please see pictures for full context. All said, this is a fine example of an important, rare and much sought after first edition in very good condition.Russ's cover illustration is bright and Naipaul's text as clear as could be hoped for. His third novel, Naipaul's early text are extremely collectable.
Seller: Henry Pordes Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Naipal, V.S.. Miguel Street. Andre Deutsch - London, UK., 1959.
Price: US$722.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. First Edition. 222pp. Book is in great condition, with no marks or inscriptions. There is a remnant of a bookseller sticker on the front pastedown. The dust wrapper is bright, with modest toning. First edition of Naipaul's third book, a powerful collection of stories about colonial Trinidad and Tobago. Awarded the Booker Prize in 1971 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, Naipal was knighted in 1990.
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
Naipaul, V.S. Miguel Street.. Andre Deutsch, London, 1959.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Naipaulâs third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a touch of wear to the crown. Jacket design by Stephen Russ. "Miguel Street is the Bowery, the Tenderloin, and the Catfish Row of Trinidads Port of Spainits citizens a loony multitude whose knavery often rises from real kinship with pathos and tragedy. . . . Naipaul is at his best in these swift caricatures of human depravity" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.