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London: Collins, 1958. [Naval adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 14s. Toning to edges, faint ghosts of some tape to endpapers, tiny ink stamp to rear pastedown, jacket a little dusty and frayed at crown. Very good indeed. A war-time adventure set on the South China Seas; the third thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Item #52951
Price: £48.00