Hi! You're looking at an excellent condition book which is VERY RARE, hard to find and OUT OF PRINT and a fascinating memoir written by adventure and thriller novel author GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD, best known as the author of Rogue Male--the book is a STATED FIRST EDITION published in Great Britain and a HARDCOVER with the ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET and is NOT a remainder copy and NOT price-clipped, with the original 21s net. British price on the lower right corner of the front inner flap.  This book is in excellent condition the book itself has very light dings on the spine and opening tips and just slight evidence of gentle browsing but NO other significant imperfections; the dustjacket has a torn out section on the lower portion of the spine end but is otherwise fully intact, with a couple of very small tears and a ding on the upper spine tip, light dings on the opening tips, slight browning on the spnie end and just very light shelfwear otherwise but no other significant flaws--it's NOT price-clipped, with the original 21s net. British price on the lower right corner of the front inner flap. The book is titled Against the Wind: An Autobiography and it was written by GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD; it was published by Michael Joseph in London, United Kingdom in 1958 and is a STATED 1st EDITION copy.

One of the twentieth century’s most respected writers of adventure and espionage thrillers, Geoffrey Household penned more than twenty novels and short story collections in a career that spanned more than fifty years—and lived a life as eventful and surprising as his acclaimed, pulse-pounding fiction. In Against the Wind, the author whom the New York Times credits with having “helped to develop the suspense story into an art form” shares his remarkable personal history with candor and wit, while exploring the creative process and his roles as a husband, father, bestselling popular artist, and citizen of his uniquely eventful time.

From his years as a student at the University of Oxford to his early career in the cutthroat world of international business and finance to his patriotic service with British intelligence during World War II, with perilous postings in Greece, Romania, and the Middle East that later informed his thrilling fiction, Household evocatively recalls a peripatetic life lived purposefully and often dangerously in some of the most colorful and fascinating regions of the globe.