9780670535675 - The Painter of Signs von Narayan, R. K. (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Penguin 1982.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Abner Graboff (Jacket design) (illustrator). First American Edtion. First impression of the first US edition. Dustwrapper design by Abner Graboff. ***Near fine in red paper over cream cloth-covered boards with blue and green titles to the spine. The titles are clear and fresh. The boards are clean and unmarked, just slightly faded at the edges. No creases or bumps. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean - just very slightly foxed. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Pages clean. No foxing. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of $8.95. The dustwrapper is complete, with just some slight rubbing and creasing at the extremities. No serious creases, chips or tears. The pink colour to the spine of the dustwrapper is slightly faded, also affecting slightly the front panel at the top edge. Dustwrapper bright. ***183 pages. 208mm x 147mm. ***'"The Painter of Signs" is R. K. Narayan's first novel ina number of years, and in it he returns again to his enchanting fictional city of Malgudi. There, he tells us the story of Raman, a splendid young painter of sign-boards, a bachelor who glories in his old-fashioned independence, whose work takes him all over Malgudi and requires him to do business with some of the city's most important, as well as its most absurd, tradesmen. Raman is polite and business-like with everyone--but underneath the small talk he conducts a quizzical dialogue with himself about his fellow humans and the meaning of their lives. Enter Daisy--an unlikely name for the ruthless but very attractive young lady who commissions Raman, on behalf of the population clinic she runs, to paint signs advocating two-child families. Together they travel around the neighboring country vilages, where Daisy must propogandize. Raman is appalled by the hard-edged zeal she brings to her work, just as he is enthralled by her beauty and mysterious independence of spirit. They are obviously made for each other. Or are they? In this sardonic, bittersweet tale of love in modern India, R. K. Narayan has created two of fiction's most endearing and unique young lovers, and an unsettling story about India at its best and worst.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (10 Oct 1906 - 13 May 2001), better known as R. K. Narayan, was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. Narayan's mentor and friend Graham Greene was instrumental in getting publishers for Narayan's first four books including the semi-autobiographical trilogy of "Swami and Friends", "The Bachelor of Arts" and "The English Teacher". The fictional town of Malgudi was first introduced in "Swami and Friends"'. (Wik) ***First impression of the first American edition, in its original dustwrapper, in very nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Viking Press, New York, 1976. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean, unmarked copy, with price ($8.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has some light fading on spine, some soiling on rear panel, a bookseller's sticker on front panel, and a very faint splash on jacket spine foot, all as pictured. The tiniest closed tear at head of jacket spine, as pictured. Fiction-N.