Guide by Narayan, First Edition (14 results)

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 247 pages; 21 cm. Subjects: Tour guides (Persons) India; Fiction. Ex-convicts India; Fiction. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.

paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. First printing, March 1966. Good. Used with wear and/or markings but is still in solid reading condition. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 247 pages; 21 cm. Subjects: Tour guides (Persons) India; Fiction. Ex-convicts India; Fiction. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. R.K. Laxman (endpapers) (illustrator). 1st Edition. NY:The Viking Press, 1958. First U.S. Edition. Very Good hardcover. Silver-lettered blue cloth/no dust jacket. Endpapers illustrated by the novelist's brother, R.K. Laxman. Upper edge and margins of rear cover show faint lines of wear; otherwise clean, tight, square, unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 285p, ills.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by LAXMAN,R.K. Character Drawings endpaper art (illustrator). FIRST EDITION US?; "published in 1958". VERY GOOD CONDITION.clean, solid,bright ; BLUE TITLES ON BLUE SPINE CLOTH.HARD COVERS. BLUE DECORATED white endpapers.BLIND EMBOSSED FRONT COVER SHOWS VIKING SHIP LOGO1X1". ; 220ps pages; wry, funny,

Condition: Good. 1958. First Edition. 221 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly warped.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 221. Owners' bookplate on pastedown. Endpapers and a few leaves little foxed. Black paper over boards. Edges spotted, cover slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear. First state DJ.

Marriott, Pat (wrapper artwork) (illustrator). The First UK printing published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., London in 1958. 8vo., black publisher's boards lettered in silver to spine with red peacock device and publisher's name to the foot; together in the striking wrapper by Pat Marriott (15s. net); The BOOK a wonderful copy, very lightly offset to endpapers but otherwise near Fine; The WRAPPER Is in Very Good++ or better condition being clean and bright with some toning to the folds, spine and lower panel. A couple of light splashes to the rear panel, and some small losses to the spine ends and the base of the rear fold. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The Indian writer Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanaswami (1906 - 2001) was an avid reader from a young age, and published his first novel, Swami and Friends, in 1930. Rejected by a swathe of publishers, Narayan finally found recognition after his manuscript was discovered by Graham Greene, and Greene continued to support Narayan with his early writing, including for his second novel, The Bachelor of Arts (1937). By the time 'The Guide' was published in 1958, Narayan's works were being published in the USA, and in fact the book was written while he was travelling throughout America, writing up to 1500 words per day. It was also around this time that Narayan travelled to England to meet Greene, his mentor and fierce advocate, for the first and only time. Set, like most of his works, in the fictional town of Malgudi (which appeared in his first novel and portrayed a microcosm of India), the book has been described as "the most representative of Narayan's writing skills and elements, ambivalent in expression, coupled with a riddle-like conclusion" (Mathur, 1993). The plot follows the protagonist, 'Railway Raju' through his beginnings as a tour guide, through his journey falling in love with a dancer, and later his life as a spiritual guide, a sadhu, living in a deserted temple and solving the problems of the local villagers - including disputes and famines. The book later won the first Sahitya Akademi Award for English, by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, in 1960. This first edition is wonderfully accompanied by the pictorial wrapper featuring an image of the aforementioned dancer by Pat Marriott, the British artist and book illustrator best known for her thirty-year collaboration with author Joan Aiken. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition with "First Published 1958" and no further printings noted on copyright page in an unclipped dust jacket with price of 15s net. Black cloth boards with red and silver titles. A NEAR FINE, bright copy with mild toning to top of the text block and front endpapers in NEAR FINE dust jacket with faded top edge and spine and several small brown spots near crease of back panel. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 183. Original publisher's black cloth lettered silver at spine. Front panel of jacket designed by Pat Marriott. Very good in complete, very good dust jacket, with faint wear and slight edgewear but no loss. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. Decent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First Edition. 221 pages in very good, clean condition; edges and endpapers very slightly yellowed. Black hardcovers with silver titles and red illustration on the spine. Corners not bumped. Purple DJ with illustration and black titles. Spine faded, light wear at head/tail. Small chips on the corners. Lower jacket a little yellowed and soiled. Not price clipped. Scarce with DJ. NEAR FINE/VG-. Book.

First edition. Octavo. A 221-page novel, set in and around Malgudi.Very small bump to bottom corner of rear cover. Very near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper, designed by Pat Marriott, slightly tanned at the spine and with a small chip.