6 PAUL THEROUX HCDJs DEEP SOUTH HALF MOON ST KOWLOON TONG LOWER RIVER STRANGER

Lot of six (6) Paul Theroux Hardcovers including five (5) First Editions

1.  Deep South

8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 441 pages followed by a section of color photographs by Steve McCurry on glossy stock

From back:  "(The author) explores a piece of America - the Deep South.  He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates.  It's these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler's eye...

Theroux visits gun shows and small town churches, laborers in Arkansas, and parts of Mississippi where the still call the farm up the road, 'the plantation'."  

Light wear to jacket, small bump to top of front cover, front board appears slightly warped.

 
2.  Half Moon Street

First Edition with full numberline

8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 219 pages

From jacket:  "(The author) brings us two brilliant short novels on the thee of a double life...both are full of a kind of eerie menace  that lies just beneath the outward events.

Lauren Slaughter's life began to change beyond recognition...

Gerald DeMarr's life suddenly changes one July day when his missing twin brother George turns up on the doorstep of their Massachusetts family home and demands to stay."

Jacket has edgewear and a small abrasion on back.

3.  Kowloon Tong

First Edition with full numberline

8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 243 deckle edged pages

From jacket:  "When Bunt first meets Mr. Hung, a well-spoken gentleman from the Chinese mainland, he pays him little heed.  And when Mr. Hung offers the Mullards a handsome sum for their family business...Bunt refuses him out of hand.  yet it soon grows clean that Mr. Hung is different from the Chinese the Mullards have lived alongside for years.  For Mr. Hung will accept no refusals."

Jacket has light wear and edgewear.

4.  Sailing through China

Stated First American Edition with full numberline

12mo size hardcover with dust jacket; 64 pages with black and white illustrations by Patrick Procktor

From jacket:  "Paul Theroux sailed down the Yangtze with a party of American millionaires...both the idiosyncrasies of the company and the impressions of China itself provided rich material for the kind of perceptive, witty writing at which the author excels."

Jacket has light wear and is price clipped; owners info written on fep; bumped head and heel of spine.

5.  The Lower River

First Edition with full numberline

8vo sized hardcover with dust jacket; 323 bright, white pages.

From jacket:  "Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa.  He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business.  When his wife leaves him, and he is on his own, he realizes that there is one place for him to go:  back to his village in Malawi, on the remote Lower River, where he can be happy again.

Arriving at the dusty village, he finds it transformed:  the school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people."

Edgewear to jacket, tiny crease on back jacket flap; we noted paper clip impressions on the bottom of the page.


6.  The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories

8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 296 deckle edged pages.

First Edition with full numberline.

From jacket:  "The thrill and risk of pursuit and desire mark the accompanying stories of the sexual awakening and rites of passages of a Boston boyhood, the ruin of a writer in Africa, and the bewitchment of a retiree in Hawaii. This is Paul Theroux at his most allusive and wise, writing with a deep understanding of the frailties of men and boys."

Edgewear, bumped head of spine.

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