Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Green paper covered boards with black cloth spine and silver gilt lettering to spine and front cover of book. Text pages clean & bright. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of light bumping & rubbing. There are two very tiny nicks to top spine end of dust jacket. Overall, a very good copy. "Rich young Augustine, returning from a day's shooting on his Welsh sea-marsh with a drowned child over his shoulder. From that statggering first scene, The Fox in the Attic deepened and ramified. It ended with Augustine in Bavaria, in the weeks following Hitler's ill-fated 1923 Munich Putsch and with the departure into a convent of Augustine's first love, the ravishing Mitzi, who has gone blind. This new novel opens with Augustine in hiding from the law in Prohibition American among a b acchanalian troop of summer poeple's youngsters, already -doing their own thing- with Mitzi in her Carmelite cell and Hitler in prison; and with the memorable night when Our Norah-one of Hughes' glorious children-fell through the floor."

General Fiction Fiction Richard Hughes The Human Predicament Hitler Europe England Travel