Miguel Street
New York: Vanguard Press, Inc, 1959. First US Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 222. Dark yellow cloth, titles stamped in red and black on the spine, ochre endpapers: just a suggestion of spine lean; ink check mark on front free endpaper. Leaves are crisp and bright, binding tight. In the three-color illustrated dust jacket with author photo portrait on the rear flap. Edge-wear with light biodepredation; spine just a tad darkened. Price $3.95 intact on the front flap. A bright, presentable copy. Very Good / Good+. Item #6392
Linked stories set in Naipaul's native Trinidad, written prior to, but published following, his 1957 first novel, Mystic Masseur. The collection enhanced Naipaul's acclaim as an emerging voice, a writer of restraint, of vivid people and settings, of universal truths amid the poverty and exoticism of a Port of Spain slum street. The dust jacket, with a brilliant, uncredited illustration by Stephen Russ, is preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
Price: $100.00