NAIPAUL, V. S. Reading & Writing. A Personal Account. New York: Review Books, 2000. 8°. Half title. Original egg-shell blue paper boards, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the title inscribed, “V. S. Naipaul, for Anthony Hobson 15 July 2000.” With 5 other books by the same author, namely Half a Life ([London, 2001]), The Writer and the World ([London, 2002]), Two Worlds ([London], 2002, ONE OF 50 COPIES [this copy unnumbered]), Magic Seeds ([London], 2004), A Writer’s People ([London], 2007), all FIRST EDITIONS IN DUST-JACKETS SIGNED OR INSCRIBED by the author