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First limited edition #126/150, signed by Hughes on limitation page. Floral decorated boards with red quater cloth, gilt spine text. Top edge gilt. Bookseller label on inside front. Spine-cocked and light soiling, edge wear. No jacket (issued with a glassine one).Hughes' first and most famous novel, publilshed in America as The Innocent Voyage, the book "is a stirring tale about five English schoolchildren who are kidnapped by Captain Jonsen and his crew of pirates during a voyage to England. . The novel was unusual for its unsentimental portrayal of childhood, which broke with Victorian conventions and pioneered a new realism" (Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, p. 484). From the private library of novelist, screenwriter and biographer William "Gatz" Hjortsberg. Seller Inventory # 37670
Bibliographic Details
Title: A High Wind in Jamaica
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
Publication Date: 1929
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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