Naipaul, V.S.

THE MYSTIC MASSEUR [Signed]

New York, NY: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1959. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xii, 215 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Faded orange spine with black and blue designs and black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$3.50" , has mild shelving wear, small open tears along the fore corners and spine tail edge, and mild age-toning along the extremities. Boards have stains throughout, and mild wear along the spine. Textblock has mild age-toning along the end-pages and pastedowns, mild wear along the edges, and stains along the edges. Signed flat by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. DL consignment.

NOTE: Shelved in Room Z.

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Price: $850

NOTES

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad [V.S.] Naipaul was born August 17, 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul is a Nobel-prize winning author, knighted by the British government in 1991, though it would take several years of writing to achieve such success. "The Mystic Masseur" would be written out of frustration with publisher André Deutsch, who saw promise in Naipaul's manuscript for the collection of short stories "Miguel Street", but pushed the author to write a novel first to gather some acclaim. Nevertheless, "The Mystic Masseur" would recieve critical acclaim upon publication in 1957, winning the 1958 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and being the first of Naipaul's works to see a film adaptation in 2001.