Jungle Lovers

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Theroux on the title page. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), rubbed and bumped at the surface and edges, creases near the head and foot of the spine. Beige cloth, faintly pushed at the corners, with brown and yellow ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a brown top stain, clean internally. Theroux's Malawi-set novel inspired by his own time there working with the Peace Corps, a novel that "reveals his deep understanding of the precarious position of the white man in Africa, of race and revolt.