Lot 28
Naipaul, V. S.
Collection of works
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
London: André Deutsch, 1957-81. All first editions, first impressions, 8vo, original boards, with the dust jackets, titles comprise: The Mystic Masseur, 1957 (ownership inscription to endpaper); The Suffrage of Elvira, 1958 (gift inscription and Trinidad bookseller's ink-stamp to endpaper, edges spotted); Miguel Street, 1959 (gift inscription to endpaper); A House for Mr Biswas, 1961 (bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, fraying to head of jacket spine); Mr Stone and the Knights Companion, 1963 (ownership inscription to endpaper, jacket nicked and with fraying to head of spine); An Area of Darkness, 1964 (jacket price-clipped); The Mimic Men, 1967; A Flag on the Island, 1967; The Loss of El Dorado, 1969; In a Free State, 1971 (jacket price-clipped); The Overcrowded Barracoon, 1972; Guerrillas, 1975; India, a Wounded Civilisation, 1977; A Bend in the River, 1979 (jacket price-clipped); The Return of Eva Peron, with The Killings in Trinidad, 1980 (jacket sunned); Finding the Centre, 1981 (jacket spine faded); Among the Believers, 1981. Together with A Congo Diary, Los Angeles, CA: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980 (first edition, one of 330 copies signed by the author, tall 8vo, original red boards stamped in black) (18)