1st Edition Thus 1984. A new edition with an introduction by Paul Theroux. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A new printing of his classic adventure novel. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP, as he was known, and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband, typing all his manuscripts, hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second, third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is good++ and quite bright. Cloth with surface rubbing and marking. Contents good. The wrapper very good and quite bright.Spine tips with surface loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. Small closed tear to top front edge. Light age toning/marking.