book.Although life in the small fictional town of Krishnapur is currently peaceful for the British colonial community, the Collector fears trouble – he has been coming across small piles of chapattis left in odd places, and he’s sure he’s heard that this happened somewhere else, just before a native uprising against the representatives of the Raj. Includes undated prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper.

Pages are very bright and clean with the exception of the occasional spot to the endpapers. There is slight spotting to the fore edge. There is some very minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine.

There is some minor wear to the extremities of the dust wrapper. In original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Farrell is an English-Irish novelist who wrote other novels on the human consequences of British colonialism, including Troubles?(1970) and?The Singapore Grip?(1978).Includes undated prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper. It won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1973.?J. It tells the story through the perspective of British colonial settlers. Farrell in the original publisher's binding and dust wrapper.The novel is inspired by real historical events such as the sieges of Kanpur and Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion in 1857. First edition, first printing of?The Siege of Krishnapur by J. Farrell's Booker Prize winning novel in the original dust wrapper.

There is some chipping along the top edge of the front panel and small area of loss at the bottom left of the spine panel. A number of tears on the front, back and spine panels have been neatly and inconspicuously repaired. The colours of the battle scene on the dust jacket remain strong and well defined and the original price (£2.25 net) has not been cut off. Internally the pages are spotless apart from the ffep on which there is a previous resale price written in pencil together with a note saying that the book is a first edition, and a few very small marks. The green cloth bound boards are unmarked and have straight edges and sharp corners. There is some light spotting on the top and bottom edges (of the text block) but none on the fore-edge. The text block is square, tightly bound and firmly hinged. This is the second novel in Farrell's Empire trilogy and it won the Booker Prize for 1973.

The siege of krishnapur by jg farrell