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NAIPAUL, V.S.

A Turn in the South.

Limited First Edition of A Turn in the South; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Author V.S. Naipaul

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1989.

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Signed limited first edition of captivating travelogue of the American South, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather specially processed for fine books by the Cromwell Leather Company with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece by Bart Forbes specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the front flyleaf. In fine condition.
"'A Turn in the South' is a departure, Naipaul's first book to speak directly to the American audience. It does indeed sometimes take an outsider to help a culture see more clearly the things that are close to it" (Barbara Cady, Publisher).
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