The overcrowded barracoon Unknown - 1973

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First American edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Gilt stamped orange cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, front flyleaf clipped at top corner, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild rubbing and shelfwear.

Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: Knopf, 1973. 1st American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. DJ by Muriel Nasser. 42833 shelf. Unread. Gold-stamped orange cloth. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. Collectible condition!

Knopf, 1973. Paperback. Good.

New York, NY: Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, 1972. First American Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/As New & Bright. Gilt embossed orange linen boards. DJ/NF; w/scratches to lower back & creasings to inner flaps. PO stamp to lower text edge. A collection of narratives, some previously published, from novelist & historian V. S. Naipaul (1932 - 2018), a Trinidad British writer who wrote more 30 books. Known for his novel "Mr. Biwas" (1961), Naipaul was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad & Tobago's highest nat'l honour in 1989, knighthood in Britain in 1990, and, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. His grandparents left India to work in Trinidad's plantations as indentured servants and his father became a journalist. 286 pgs. Anthology of essays, linked thematically, of self-exiled people & the perplexities of displacement. The essays in four groups. I, An Unlikely Colonial; II, India; III, Looking Westward; and IV,… Leer más

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1973. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394482905 . First American edition/first printing in Very Good, sunned condition in alike dust-jacket, else Fine. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number and signature on front paste down; The Overcrowded Barracoon is a book by Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul. The book is a collection of essays, some of which were first published in magazines and newspapers. The essays explore the themes of colonialism, race, and identity.; 8vo .