A Late Education by Alan Moorehead

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket: Very Good-. 1970 Harper & Row. 1st U.S. Edition.

At 26, Alan Moorehead escaped from the Melbourne suburbs to Europe and the shimmering pre-war days of London and Paris. He was in England when Edward VIII abdicated, in Paris during the last gay days of the thirties, and was sent to Spain on a tanker smuggling petrol.