Here on offer is a very nice copy of Paul Bowles political thriller, The Spider's House, his 3rd novel and a deeper look at the conflict between Eastern and Western cultures.  This copy is a 1st U K edition, 1st printing of the work, published by Macdonald & Company in 1957.  The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Brodart sleeve.

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"The Spider’s House is a novel by Paul Bowles and first published by Random House in 1955.

The third of the author’s four novels, The Spider’s House is his only work that encompasses a contemporary political crisis: the struggle for Moroccan independence from French colonial rule during the 1950s. . . . 

The Spider’s House has been widely recognized as the most 'political' of Bowles’s novels. The story is set in Fez during the Moroccan nationalist uprisings of the 1950s. Literary critic Francine Prose, writing in 2002, shortly after the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, and just before the U. S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 wrote:

The Spider's House ought to top those lists of novels that speak to our present cultural condition. Set in Fez during the first of the upheavals that announced a more radical and violent phase of the Moroccan struggle for independence from the French, the book seems not merely prescient but positively eerie in its evocation of a climate in which every aspect of daily life is affected--and deformed --by the roilings of nationalism and terrorism, by the legacy of colonialism, and by chaotic political strife.' ”

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"Classic fiction. Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the Medina. A nationalist uprising is transforming the country, much to the annoyance of Stenham, who enjoys the trappings of the old city. His path soon crosses with the young, illiterate son of a healer, another outsider to the newly politicised life of Morocco, in this brutally honest novel of life in the midst of terrorism, violence and the ugly opportunism that accompanies both. Bowles's most masterly novel combines his classic themes: the conflict of Eastern and Western cultures and the trials of otherness."

The above text was taken from, respectively, Wikipedia and Penguin Books Limited (via Google Books.)

[Bowles, Paul. The Spider's House. United Kingdom: Penguin Books, Limited, 2009.]

This handsome copy would be a worthy addendum to your 1st editions library.