V S Naipaul. Miguel Street. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1959.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Tearing and chipping to DJ under glassine wrapper. Dust jacket shows minor wear to edges and corners. Rubbing and toning overall. Photos upon request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Seller: Boards & Wraps, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.

Naipaul, V.S.. MIGUEL STREET. The Vanguard Press, Inc, New York, 1959.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st American edition, 1959. A Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. 8vo., 222 pp., bound in publishers yellow cloth with illustrated dust jacket, $3.95. Jacket has some mild overall soiling. The top 20% of the spine is missing, base of spine is chipped. Text edges are dusty; some rubbing to top of board. Text is unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.

Naipaul, V.S.. Miguel Street. The Vanguard Press, Inc., New York, 1959.

Price: US$70.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 222 pp.; HB w/DJ. Ex-lib w/ usual, including several stamp maks that have been markered over, dewey notation to spine. Pages: clean, bright, tight, orange eps; fep has been neatly removed, t.e. slightly dusty, slightly cocked. Cover: yellow, red/green titles spine; v light shelfwear, mildly curved, front bottom corner lightly bumped, tape shadows to boards. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, white, red/green graphic artwork and reverse titles front/spine, red/green text backslight wear top spine front.

Seller: Independent Books, Long Beach, WA, U.S.A.

NAIPAUL, V. S.. Miguel Street. Vanguard Press, Inc, New York, 1959.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. Pp. 222. Dark yellow cloth, titles stamped in red and black on the spine, ochre endpapers: just a suggestion of spine lean; ink check mark on front free endpaper. Leaves are crisp and bright, binding tight. In the three-color illustrated dust jacket with author photo portrait on the rear flap. Edge-wear with light biodepredation; spine just a tad darkened. Price $3.95 intact on the front flap. A bright, presentable copy. Linked stories set in Naipaul's native Trinidad, written prior to, but published following, his 1957 first novel, Mystic Masseur. The collection enhanced Naipaul's acclaim as an emerging voice, a writer of restraint, of vivid people and settings, of universal truths amid the poverty and exoticism of a Port of Spain slum street. The dust jacket, with a brilliant, uncredited illustration by Stephen Russ, is preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

Naipaul, V.S.. The Mystic Masseur. Vanguard Press; (1959), NY, 1959.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First US edition of the author's first book. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The black cloth covering the rear board has a couple of small scratches, otherwise fine. The jacket has small closed tears at the top of the front flap fold, and at the bottom of the rear panel. The jacket spine is just slightly sunned. Naipaul's debut novel, although he actually wrote Miguel Street prior to this book. Signed by the author on the title page. A tight, clean copy with no names or other markings in the book and the publisher's price ($3.50) is present on the front flap of the jacket.

Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.