The Egyptian - first US edition

by Mika Waltari

First US edition of Waltari's classic novel of ancient Egypt. made into a movie in 1955 starring Victor Mature as Sinhue. Translated from the original Finnish by Naomi Walford. A wonderful historic fiction tale, the first in a series by the author.

Book is taupe-colored cloth with red and blue stamped spine, tight, no internal marks, maps on internal end papers; the dust wrapper is fully intact, very lightly sunned to the spine, with minor edge wear; no missing pieces Very difficult to find in the non-bookclub first edition.

Jacket art by from an oil painting by Robert Stewart Mac Keller.