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Naipaul, V.S. The Suffrage of Elvira.. Andre Deutsch, London, 1958.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Naipaul's second book. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Robert Micklewright. An exceptional example. The Suffrage of Elvira is based on an election in rural post colonial Trinidad. J. M. Coetzee, writing in The New York Review of Books in 2001, described Naipaul as "a master of modern English prose". In 2008, The Times ranked Naipaul seventh on their list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by Naipaul on title page (undated). First impression. Crown octavo (19cm). Publisher's blue buckram, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 240pp. A tight, square copy with just mild wear at bottom board edges; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 15s net at base of front flap), lightly rubbed at extremities and with a couple of shallow nicks at head and heel of spine panel, Very Good+. The Nobel Prize-winning author's second novel, set in colonial Trinidad. It was not published in the U.S. until 1982, when it was included in Knopf's omnibus volume Three Novels. Rather scarce in this condition and especially so signed.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.