GIRLS AT PLAY. Signed by Theroux.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969.
1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the author's third novel, one of his earliest and scarcest, written at the age of 27 when he was a lecturer in English at the University of Singapore. 8vo., 209pp., orange cloth, with green lettering to the spine & front board, yellow topstain. A near fine copy in dust jacket. Signed in black pentel on the Title Page. "This compelling novel, set in the green chaos of East Africa, concerns the ambitions of three women, teachers at a remote girls' school. They are the only white women in this region, and each is in her own way doomed." A wonderful copy.
Item #34307 Price: US$475.00