The Numbers Game

 Rupert Croft-Cooke

 Putnam 1^st 1963

 Medium octavo 228 pages. One of a sequence of the author’s autobiographical sequence.

 The Number’s Game vividly recalls the everyday happenings of the young writer;s world. Mr. Croft-Cooke communicates the delight of having for the first time a room of his own in London, of the theatre, of arguing with his friends long into the summer nights. He describes his introduction into the extraordinary world of the homosexuals of the 1920’s, of his meeting again with Oswald Horrax, the schoolmaster who had such an unfluence on his early life, and tells of some famous characters who also his friends – Lord Alfred Douglas, John Galsworth, Louis Golding. Interesting and anecdotal, from the pen of a very prolific writer.

 The dust jacket is complete, has some shelf rub to the outer edges, a 1cm split at the front top of the spine, and a little light foxing at the rear. The book is in very good condition, apart from a little light foxing to the closed page edges, three miniscule bumps to the top of the rear board, and some original pencilled prices on the fep. An excellent item.