NAIPAUL, V. S. In a Free State. [London:] Andre Deutsch, [1971]. 8°. Half title. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket by Sam Houston with price of £1.75 unclipped (jacket with some very light rubbing to head and foot of backstrip). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the title inscribed, “V. S. Naipaul for Anthony Hobson, Feb 11 90.” With 2 other books by the same author, namely The Overcrowded Barracoon and other articles ([London], 1972) and A Bend in the River ([London], 1979), both FIRST EDITIONS IN DUST-JACKETS, PRESENTATION COPIES to Anthony Hobson.