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RARE 1ST ED. GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD BOOK, "THE EXPLOITS OF XENOPHON" (1955)

Description: RARE 1ST ED. GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD BOOK, "THE EXPLOITS OF XENOPHON" (1955) Used in very good condition commensurate with age and scarcity. The boards and leaves are 100% correct. The covers are presented very cleanly. The rear board is slightly loose but very serviceable. The sublime illustrations by Fisher are fully saturated in color and superb in execution. Overall, a very beautiful first edition sans the dust jacket. Geoffrey Edward West Household (30 November 1900 – 4 October 1988) was a prolific British novelist who specialized in thrillers. He is best known for his novel Rogue Male (1939).He was born in Bristol; his father Horace was a barrister. Household was educated at Clifton College, Bristol (1914–1919), and at Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he received a B.A. in English literature in 1922. He became an assistant confidential secretary for Bank of Romania, in Bucharest (1922–1926). In 1926 he went to Spain, where he worked selling bananas as a marketing manager for the United Fruit Company (Elders and Fyffes). In 1929 Household moved to the United States where he wrote for children's encyclopedias and composed children's radio plays for the Columbia Broadcasting System. From 1933 to 1939 he was a traveling salesman for John Kidd, a manufacturer of printing ink, in Europe, the Middle East and South America. He served in British Intelligence during World War II in Romania, Greece and the Middle East.He married twice, secondly in 1942 to Ilona Zsoldos-Gutman, by whom he had a son and two daughters.After the War, he lived the life of a country gentleman and wrote. In his later years, he lived in Charlton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, and died in Wardington on 4 October 1988, aged 87.He began to write in the 1920s. His first short story, "El Quixote del cine' was published in The London Mercury in September 1929 under the pseudonym of David Hilcot.His first novel The Terror of Villadonga was published in 1936. His first short story collection, The Salvation of Pisco Gabar and Other Stories, came out in 1938. In all, he wrote twenty-eight novels (including four for young adults and a novella), seven short story collections, and an autobiography, Against the Wind, published in 1958. International intrigue and espionage are the focus of a large proportion of his books, including Rogue Male, The High Place (1950), A Rough Shoot (1951), Fellow Passenger (1955), Watcher in the Shadows (1960), Red Anger (1975) and The Last Two Weeks of Georges Rivac (1978).Many of his stories have scenes set in caves, and there is a science-fiction or supernatural element in some, although this is restrained. The typical Household hero was a strong, capable Englishman with a high sense of honor which bound him to a certain course of action. He described himself, in terms of his writing, as "sort of a bastard by Stevenson out of Conrad ... Style is enormously important to me and I do try to develop my hero as a human being in trouble."Indiana University holds a collection of Household's manuscripts and correspondence.

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Item Specifics

All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Binding: Hardcover

Place of Publication: NY

Signed: No

Publisher: Random House

Subject: GREEK MILITARY HISTORY

Original/Facsimile: Original

Year Printed: 1955

California Prop 65 Warning: NA

Unit Type: Unit

Language: English

Illustrator: LEONARD EVERETT FISHER

Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated

Author: GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD

Region: Europe

Personalized: No

Topic: GREEK MILITARY LEADER, PHILOSOPHER, AND HISTORIAN

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Unit Quantity: 1

Character Family: XENOPHON

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