Venezuela rare books

First US edition, first impression; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); presentation copy, signed on the title page, 'V.S. Naipual for Al Murray', cartographic endpapers, top edge stained; original burgundy cloth, author's initials blind stamped to upper board, title and floral detail gilt stamped to spine, slightly rubbed, with the dust jacket in a later state, a good copy.

First edition, the Beckford-Rosebery copy with 2 pages of notes in Beckford's hand, 8vo, [2], [v]-xx, 398pp., 7 aquatint plates, one coloured by hand, contemporary polished pale calf, dark blue label, a fine copy.