Household,Geoffrey — Arabesque

Chatto & Windus This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original light brown boards with blue title lettering to spine,in a Good Dust-Jacket,with a small 7mm chip to the top edge of the front cover and with a couple of closed tears to the extremities of the dust-wrapper.There is some spotting to the rear of the Dust-Jacket and to the inner flaps of the wrapper.Not price clipped (10s 6d net showing to front flap) with no previous inscriptions present.There is some light spotting to the endpapers and to the text block edges.Surely a great addition to any Geoffrey Household collection and an uncommon UK First Edition in Dust-Jacket.The Author was born in Bristol in 1900 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, Geoffrey Household worked all over the world, including Eastern Europe, the US, the Middle East and South America, as, among other things, a banker, a salesman and an encyclopedia writer. He served in British intelligence in World War 2. His other works include A Rough Shoot, Watcher in the Shadows, Rogue Justice and an autobiography, Against the Wind. He died in 1988,8vo 244pp First Edition 1st Impression [1948] Very Good Good First Edition 1st Printing London 8vo