signed first edition
2010 · New York
by NAIPAUL, V.S.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.5cm); black and russet paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; [x],[2]-241,[5]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $26.95), with some pinpoint wear to extremities. Late travel narrative by the Trinidadian Nobel Prize-winner, centered around "the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization" (from front flap). 85246. (Inventory #: 85246)