Paul Theroux — Picture Palace

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of Paul Theroux's brilliant novel, in a dust wrapper. Maude Coffin Pratt, a world famous photographer, has spent her life photographing celebrities in all sorts of places. As she sits admiring her old images ahead of a triumphant retrospective, her life's work comes rushing back to her memory, as does her terrible secret.Paul Theroux (b. 1941) is an American author and writer of travelogues, whose works include 'The Mosquito Coast' and 'The Great Railway Bazaar&apos.A first edition.Complete with a clipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with a clipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine only. Dust wrapper is in excellent condition, with very slight wear to the head and tail and a small ink stain to the inside of the rear flap. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. There is an ink stain to the rear pastedown. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .