Hussein Entertainment by Russ (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Black cloth, some marking to the spine and covers and a slight lean to the book. Internally very good. Richard Patrick Russ is the birth name of the Irish novelist Patrick O'Brian.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 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).

Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-300 [301: blank] [302: printer's imprint] [303-304: blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in yellow, top edge stained gray. First edition. The third book by Russ who changed his name to Patrick O'Brian and became a best-selling author of nautical fiction. Not in Gupta. A fine copy. (#162021).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 8vo. [190 x 125 x 40]. iv, 302 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, with lettering in light green to the spine. (Marking to the spine and covers, with the boards out of square and some foxing to the extremities). Richard Patrick Russ is the birth name of the Irish novelist Patrick O'Brian. This is the tale of an Indian boy named Hussein, set in the days of the Raj. It was Russ's third published work, and the first contemporary fiction book to be published by the Oxford University Press.