A House For Mr. Biswas. by Naipaul, V.S - 1961

London: Andre Deutsch, 1961. First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Fine in an excellent dust jacket with a few small closed tears and light wear. Jacket design by Stephen Russ. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. "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 greatest novels of the twentieth century.