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Sir Vidia's Shadow : A Friendship Across Five Continents
por Theroux, Paul
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
- Condição
- Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395907284
- ISBN 13
- 9780395907283
- Livreiro
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0395907284 . A few spots of foxing to page edges. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; This copy signed by the author on the title page. x, 358 pages. Black boards with black cloth spine. Page dimensions: 228 x 151mm. A book about the writer V. S. Naipaul (1932-2018) and Paul Theroux's friendship with him over 30 years, since they first met in Uganda in 1966. "This is an intimate portrait of a friendship, its beginning, middle, and end. And it describes that rarest and most fragile of alliances, a literary friendship. One year before he published his first book, Paul Theroux met V. S. Naipaul - Vidia, as he was known. For thirty years both men remained in close touch, even when continents separatd them." - from dust-jacekt blurb. .
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 23895
- Título
- Sir Vidia's Shadow : A Friendship Across Five Continents
- Autor
- Theroux, Paul
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edição
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395907284
- ISBN 13
- 9780395907283
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Local de publicação
- Boston
- Data de publicação
- 1998
- Palavras-chave
- 0395907284
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Sobre o Vendedor
Renaissance Books
Membro de Biblio desde 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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