PATRICK O'BRIAN (writing as 'R. P. Russ'). — Hussein. An Entertainment.

Oxford University Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 300pp. Black cloth lettered and ruled in yellow at the spine. Top edge dust soiled, and with just a trace of bruising to the backstrip ends. A small area of moisture (?) staining to the backstrip cloth. Free endpapers toned and spotted. Binding a fraction tender at several gatherings. Handsome Robert Gibbings-designed former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. A nice crisp copy. No dust wrapper. The author's third book and second novel, expanded from the two 'Hussein' stories which appeared in his short fiction collection 'Beasts Royale' (1934)., Good, No Jacket