ROHMER, Sax. White Velvet. ~b~New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company~i~. 1936.
8vo. Original yellow cloth, lettered and decorated in black to spine, top edge stained yellow, other edges untrimmed, with the original pictorial dust jacket; pp. vi, 337, [1 (blank)]; spine ends slightly rubbed, jacket a little stained with a few nicks to edges and spine lightly sunned, else near fine.
First edition of this spy fiction novel set in Egypt, very rare in the original pictorial dust jacket.
Secret agent Larry Tabrer is sent to Egypt to bust an international drug ring, headed by a mysterious organisation known as "The Five". But things get complicated when he falls for Musette, a dancer with possible ties to the gang…
Sax Rohmer was the pseudonym of British writer Arthur Henry Ward (1883-1959), best known for his Fu Manchu series.
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