Alexander Theroux. 
 
Gambit: 1975. Later paperback edition. Matted softcover. Octavo. Smudges on the wraps. Dings on the crown and heel of the spine and the corners of the wraps. Foxing on the edges of the text block and on the first and last pages. 216 pages of the novel and 32 pages of the essay. Very good. Signed. 
 
Theroux's first novel. The reader is immediately bounced around and then sent zooming through the air by his style, controversial but undeniable. But Three Wogs is also a political novel. Structured in three parts, each sequence uses the acidic, playful prose to skewer its racist protagonist. This edition includes an essay by Theroux articulating his literary project and responding to his critics. 
 
"It's a private act, writing, and will healthily vary from soul to soul. The composition of hoggerel, of course, mere quonking, is no more private than the act of selling tin flutes, which is, of course, public - a spoof of creation, in the same way that the enemy of good English is not the crassilingual auto mechanic but rather the bad English teacher."