Description:
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2000. Collector's Edition. Fine. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on Easton's signature page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings. Bound in full leather, with 22 kt inlaid embellishments and gilded page edges, a satin page marker, and silk moire endpapers. Includes Certificate of Authenticity and publisher notes about book and author. When Salim, a young Indian man, is offered a small business in Central Africa, he accepts. As he strives to establish himself, he becomes closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly-dependent state.