Seth vikram born 1952 (3 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 307; [3]. Publisher's grey cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of £9.95. Toning to pages and text-block edges, rolling to spine, wearing to dust-jacket edges. Very good. 'The Golden Gate' is the first book by poet and novelist Vikram Seth. It is composed in verse with 590 onegin stanzas. …

First Edition. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 503 [1]. With three suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to titles page. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine, a gilt device to upper, and decorated endpapers. With the decorative dust-jacket priced at £20. A fine, as-new copy. The extraordinary life-stories of Seth's great aunt and uncle. Signed.…

First Edition. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16m), pp.[16]; 1349; [11]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, pale green endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Chris Shamwana priced at £20 to front flap. Thin paper inevitably tanned, otherwise clean and bright with no inscriptions. Mild sunning to jacket spine. Near fine. One of the longest single volume English-language novels to exist, 'A Suitable Boy' takes place after the 1947 Partition of India. Uniquely, each chapter is titled in the contents page as a rhyming couplet. …