This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's Original Blue Pictorial Cloth Boards with bright and vivid gilt title lettering to spine.This copy has one previous W.H. Smith Plate to the front pastedown and there is one previous neat inscription to the blank front endpaper.The binding of the book remains pretty firm with a little stitching showing through along the front and rear gutter hinge join.Internally clean apart from a few foxing spots contained within the margins of a few pages of text.Top edge of the book is in gilt.The Grand Babylon Hotel is a novel by Arnold Bennett, published in January 1902, about the mysterious disappearance of a German prince. It originally appeared as a serial in the Golden Penny.This is the very rare First UK Edition of 1902 which was adapted and made into a Mystery film of the same name in 1916,8vo 336pp plus 32 page publisher's catalogue at rear First UK Edition 1st Impression