V. S. NAIPAUL. — Miguel Street. A novel.

Andre Deutsch Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). The publisher's file copy, with their inkstamp to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 222pp. Dark green pebbled boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Some toning to the paperstock, and with a small indentation to the head of the upper and lower boards. A very good copy in the pictorial dust wrapper designed by Stephen Russ, non-price-clipped but lightly toned at the spine panel, and with a tiny hint of wear to the spine ends. The Nobel Laureate's third published book, but in fact the first that he wrote, a series of linked short stories set in wartime Trinidad and Tobago, penned whilst Naipaul was working for the BBC in London. (Deutsch was reluctant to published short fiction by an unknown Trinidadian writer, and encouraged him to write a novel instead. Both 'The Mystic Masseur' and 'The Suffrage of Elvira' were issued by Deutsch to considerable acclaim, laying the path for the eventual publication of this work)., Very Good, Very Good