Accession number
PML 350060
Published
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1997.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection, purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Notes
A bound proof of the 1st American edition, lacking pagination in the table of contents, and with copy editor's handwritten marks reproduced throughout.
First printed leaf, captioned "Brief Description," includes V.S. Naipaul's name on the list of contributors, subsequently crossed out in black marker.
Previously published in England by Vintage under the title: The Vintage book of Indian writing, 1947-1997.
Introduction by Salman Rushdie.
First printed leaf, captioned "Brief Description," includes V.S. Naipaul's name on the list of contributors, subsequently crossed out in black marker.
Previously published in England by Vintage under the title: The Vintage book of Indian writing, 1947-1997.
Introduction by Salman Rushdie.
Description
xxiv, 566 p. ; 21 cm
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Binding
Pictorial front wrapper, with white spine and back.
Classification
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