A House For Mr. Biswas.

NAIPAUL, V.S.

Item Number: 919

London: Andre Deutsch, 1961.

First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in an excellent dust jacket that shows some light wear to the crown. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box. This copy has the rare wrap around band that reads “V.S Naipaul Winner of the the Somerset Maugham Award”. We have never seen another copy with this band. Rare.

"For sheer abundance of talent there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V.S. Naipaul. Whatever we may want in a novelist is to be found in his books: an almost Conradian gift for tensing a story, a serious involvement with human issues, a supple English prose, a hard-edged wit, a personal vision of things...[He is] the world's writer, a master of language and perception" (The New York Times Book Review). Listed on both Modern Library and Time's 100 great novels of the twentieth century.