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Naipaul, V.S. The Suffrage of Elvira. Andre Deutsch, 1958.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition 1st printing hardback in unclipped jacket. This is a deaccessioned ex-library book, with usual stamps in a very bright jacket with internal tape repairs at the top and the bottom of the spine. Scans available on request.
Seller: Mungobooks, Poole, United Kingdom
Naipaul. V. S.. The Suffrage of Elvira. Andre Deutsch, London, 1958.
Price: US$60.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. First Russell Edition, second impression (1964). Unclipped jacket is slightly marked, with worn edges, including two or three minor nicks. Corners and spine ends of jacket and hardcover are bumped. Page block is tanned and sparsely foxed. Binding is tight and pages are clean - text is clear throughout. TS
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V.S.. The Suffrage of Elvira. Andre Deutsch, London, United Kingdom, 1958.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. Blue boards with gilt letters on a faded spine. Authors second book. There is foxing throughout. Previous owner's signature on the front free page. The lower front corner of the base of the spine is frayed. No DJ is present. 240 pages. 1A, B1
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
Naipaul, V. S.. The Suffrage of Elvira. Andre Deutsch Limited, London, 1958.
Price: US$110.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-library. First edition. Boards and page block are marked. Lower leading corners, edges and spine ends are lightly bumped. Library labels on front pastedown and FEP. Stamps and minor marks on a few pages. Pen on copyright page. Text is clear throughout. Volume is cocked but binding remains intact. HCW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V. S.. The Suffrage of Elvira. Andre Deutsch, London, 1958.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No signatures. Contemporary bookseller's ticket on front pastedown endpaper "S.P.C.K. Bookshop Chacon Street, Port of Spain". Spine faded. Slight bruising to head of spine. No dust wrapper. ; First printing. 240 pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. The author's second novel. "That afternoon Mr Surujpat Harbans nearly killed the two white women and the black bitch." - the opening sentence.; 8vo
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
V.S. Naipaul. The Suffrage of Elvira. Andre Deutsch Ltd, London, 1958.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Andre Deutsch first edition 1958 in nice condition, Smart blue boards with gilt title, Ex-library with library lending sheet removed from the FEP and ink signatures on the FEP and title page, Also title page has the name of the library perforated through it, Top edge dusty and other two edges slightly yellowed otherwise text in good clean order, DW slightly chipped round the edges and a short tear at the base of the spine, A library sticker has bee affixed with selotape to the base of the spine, DW not price clipped.
Seller: Bert's Bargain Books, DUNFERMLINE, FIFE, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V.S. The Suffrage of Elvira. Andre Deutsch, 1958.
Price: US$340.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition 1st printing hardback in unclipped jacket. Book and jacket in VG condition, with no inscriptions, book with lightly marked front board, jacket with slight loss at the head of the spine. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request.
Seller: Mungobooks, Poole, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V.S. The Suffrage of Elvira. Published by Andre Deutsch, 1958, 1958.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st/1st. Blue cloth with mark on front board and previous owner's name in not p/c dj, which has one tear and a mark on the rear; nw in transparent wrapper.
Seller: Mike Conry, WORCESTER, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V.S.. THE SUFFRAGE OF ELVIRA. Andre Deutsch: (London) (1958), 1958.
Price: US$402.50 + shipping
Description: 7.5 x 5", blue cloth-like boards, 240pp, covers with some extremity wear, hinges loose, old ink inscription (1958) from former owner on front fly, pp a little edge-toned, in an edge-worn, toned dustjacket with a closed tear to top edge of front panel. FIRST BRITISH EDITION.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
NAIPAUL V.S.. The Suffrage of Elvira. , 1958.
Price: US$485.07 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Andre Deutsch. A very good copy, boards a little effected by what looks like faint water damage, not effecting the interior of the book, some offsetting to endpapers.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V. S.. The Suffrage of Elvira. Andre Deutsch, London, 1958.
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover - first printing - in unclipped jacket designed by Robert Micklewright. Jacket is lightly marked (negligibly on front), and a little worn at points, most notably a bumped area of rear upper edge, causing a couple of very minor nicks. Spine ends are lightly bumped. One or two minor marks and imperfections on boards; page block is faintly foxed. Pages are clean, and binding is sound - a very good book in good jacket. Further photos upon request. TS
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
NAIPAUL, V. S.. The Suffrage of Elvira. Andre Deutsch, 1958.
Price: US$590.30 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing, Andre Deutsch, 1958. Very light foxing to top and fore edges, gilt title to spine a little dulled, and top and bottom extremities very slightly sunned, otherwise VG without inscriptions in near fine price-clipped dust-jacket (designed by Robert Micklewright.) A lovely copy of the authorâ â¢s rare second novel.The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 was awarded to V. S. Naipaul for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.Published: Andre Deutsch, 1958
Seller: Roy Turner Books, Stockport, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V. S.. The Suffrage of Elvira. Andre Deutsch, London, 1958.
Price: US$599.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light blue cloth with slightly dulled spine gilt. Board edges faded. Boards slightly bowed. Two corners softened. Foxing to text block edge. The original jacket in mylar has front flap price clipped, though 15s price remains on back flap. The jacket has chip to top front edge, some edgewear, clear tape to corners and light foxing. A tight unmarked copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Naipaul V.S.. The Suffrage of Elvira. Andre Deutsch, London, 1958.
Price: US$763.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue covers with gilt titles to spine. a very small mark at top of front cover where DJ has stuck. Small neat name and date at top of ffep. DJ is unclipped and has a water mark to bottom back cover, front cover is very clean.Now in protective covering. A very good tight copy.
Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V.S.. The Suffrage of Elvira. Andre Deutsch, London, 1958.
Price: US$925.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Blue paper-covered hardcover with spine lettered in gilt. 240 pp. The author's second novel and scarcest book. A novel set in Trinidad. A tight, near fine example, trace of shelf wear and a small ink notation on the front free endpaper. In bright dust jacket, price clipped and with 3/4" chip missing for head of spine and very minor wear at the extremities. Quite presentable indeed.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Naipaul, V.S.. The Suffrage Of Elvira. Andre Deutsch, 1958.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The First UK printing published by Andre Deutsch in 1958. The BOOK is in near FINE condition. Small booksellers sticker to the lower front pastedown (Fogarty's, Trinidad). Free from inscriptions, erasures and markings. A sharp copy. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ or better condition. It has a little toning to the spine colouring, mild edge wear at the spine ends and light rubbing along the spine folds in places. A little dustiness and soiling to the rear panel. The Robert Micklewright wrapper artwork looks striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. The Nobel Laureate's scarce second novel. Collectible. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Naipaul, V.S. The Suffrage of Elvira.. Andre Deutsch, London, 1958.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Naipaul's second book. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Robert Micklewright. An exceptional example. The Suffrage of Elvira is based on an election in rural post colonial Trinidad. J. M. Coetzee, writing in The New York Review of Books in 2001, described Naipaul as "a master of modern English prose". In 2008, The Times ranked Naipaul seventh on their list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by Naipaul on title page (undated). First impression. Crown octavo (19cm). Publisher's blue buckram, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 240pp. A tight, square copy with just mild wear at bottom board edges; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 15s net at base of front flap), lightly rubbed at extremities and with a couple of shallow nicks at head and heel of spine panel, Very Good+. The Nobel Prize-winning author's second novel, set in colonial Trinidad. It was not published in the U.S. until 1982, when it was included in Knopf's omnibus volume Three Novels. Rather scarce in this condition and especially so signed.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.