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First Impression. Octavo (19cm); blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-240pp. Hint of sunning to spine, touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, with some scattered foxing to text edges; internally clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 15s. net), showing just a hint of sunning to spine, some trivial dust-soil, and a few tiny tears; a bright, Near Fine example. The Nobel Prize-winning author's second novel, set in colonial Trinidad, which satirizes the democratic process. It was published a few years before Trinidad and Tobago achieved independence in 1962, and was not published in the U.S. until 1982, when it was included in Knopf's omnibus volume Three Novels. 81397.

The Suffrage of Elvira is a comic novel by V. S. Naipaul, first published in 1958. It is Naipaul's second published book, which focuses on an election campaign in a rural town in Trinidad and the various social forces and characters that emerge during this period. The novel displays Naipaul's sharp wit and keen observations of human behavior.