Mr Stone and the Knights Companion.

£100 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

First edition by Naipaul that 'marks the first time this very distinguished West Indian author has written a novel which deals exclusively with the English against their own background. The result is completely successful... beautifully written, restrained and sensitive' (The Sphere, 8 June 1963). First edition, first impression; 8vo (20.5 x14 cm); slightly age-toned, else unmarked internally; publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket by Leonard Rosoman, spine and front panel slightly sunned, some light rubbing and soiling, one or two small abrasion marks, else very good; 160pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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