White Velvet by Sax Rohmer

ROHMER, Sax. White Velvet. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936.

First edition of this spy fiction novel set in Egypt, very scarce 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, best known for his Fu Manchu series.

Octavo, pp. 337; near fine; yellow cloth, lettered and decorated in black to spine, top edge stained yellow, other edges untrimmed, with the original pictorial dust jacket (spine ends slightly rolled and rubbed, jacket with a few nicks to edges, spine lightly sunned).