1st Edition 1982. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A limited edition of 150 copies this being number 21 and signed by V S Pritchett and Paul Theroux.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 near fine and bright.