"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
The Black Tide.
London: Collins, 1982. [Shipwreck adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.347; [5], blank. Green cloth with silver gilt titles to spine in pictorial dust-wrapper. With publisher's paste-over text applied to an error within the blurb on the front flap, and a cancelled (replaced) dedication leaf 'To Marjory and Ian [Chapman]', who were the Chairman and first lady of Collins at this time. Discreet name beneath flap. A lightly handled copy in near fine condition. An oil-spill drama set off the Cornish coast. Item #53921
Price: £28.00
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