A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes 1st / 1st 1929
£225.00Price
First UK edition published by Chatto & Windus in 1929. This is a very good or better copy. There are small shallow chips to the top and bottom edges of the front panel along with some wear to the top of the spine. The jacket is not price clipped. The book itself is clean and presentable with no foxing or ink. Overall a very good or better copy.
Richard Hughes garish and dark children's adventure story set in the early 19th century about a group of children unwittingly kidnapped by pirates. A parody of victorian adventure stories, no one is innocent, least of all the children. Listed in Modern Library's top 100 novels of the 20th century and was adapted to the big screen in in 1965.