The Loss Of El Dorado
by Naipaul, V S
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at Oxford he began to write, and since then he has followed no other profession. He is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction and the recipient of numerous honors, including the Nobel Prize in 2001, the Booker Prize in 1971, and a knighthood for services to literature in 1990. He lives in Wiltshire, England.
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The Loss of El Dorado.
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The Loss of El Dorado: A History
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A History. : Knopf, 1969. . First American edition. . As New in fine, now in a DEMCO covered dust-jacket. . A flawless copy of this complex re-creation of the history of Venezuela and Trinidad by the 2001 Nobel Prize winning author. Naipaul examines the Spanish/British colonial rivalry in the Orinoco basin--drawing on contemporary sources written in Spanish… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Loss of El Dorado: A History.
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Loss of El Dorado: A History.
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A superb first printing of the first American edition [Knopf New York 1970] signed by the 2001 winner of the Nobel Prize, V S Naipaul, directly on the title page. The book is in very fine condition with no remainder marks, a tight and square binding, with no owner inscriptions or highlighting and no staining or marking. The dust jacket… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Loss of El Dorado
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Andre Deutsch, 1969. Hardcover/Hardback. Fine. First edition, first impression. Light foxing to edges, otherwise fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. 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, 1969 Item Price
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THE LOSS OF EL DORADO - A HISTORY
by Naipaul, V.S.
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1969. 334 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with b/w plate, a plan of the town of Port of Spain. Pages v/g condition, clean. Beige endpapers illustrated with maps. Brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Head of spine and top edges lightly bumped. Brown dust jacket not price clipped. VG+/VG+. 1st UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Item Price
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(London): Andre Deutsch; (1969). First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First UK edition, preceding the American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The lower corner of the front flap of the jacket is clipped, but most copies seem to have been clipped by the publisher, and a price sticker affixed. This copy has the very faint outline of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Loss of El Dorado; A History
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New York: Knopf, 1970. Small four-digit number in ink to ffep. "A blend of awful fact and golden fantasy"; End-paper maps; 335pp., plus 6 page index. A rather scarce Naipaul first edition. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
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The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
by S. Naipaul, V.
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The Loss of El Dorado
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The Loss of el Dorado : A Colonial History
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The Loss of El Dorado: A History
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The Loss of El Dorado : A Colonial History
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The Loss of El Dorado
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Gift inscription on front fly, else fine in fine dustwrapper with some creasing to the front flap, very faint staining to the reverse of the wrapper, and very light soiling to the rear panel. Re-creation of the history of the author's native Trinidad. Item Price
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THE LOSS OF EL DORADO : A HISTORY.
by NAIPAUL, V.S. (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 :
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London : André Deutsch, (1969). First edition. The Port of Spain and the twinned stories of the dispossessed conquistador and the later Venezuelan revolution. Demy 8vo (22cm). [2],334pp. Frontispiece plan. Endpaper maps. Original brown boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; top edge orange; very good in the original Keith Rawling dust-jacket - a design in brown, gold and orange -… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Loss of El Dorado
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(London): Andre Deutsch, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in price-clipped else fine dustwrapper. Re-creation of the history of the author's native Trinidad. Item Price
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