London: Chatto & Windus, 1938. First edition. Octavo (7.75 x 5. 25 in.); 273pp.; blue cloth boards, in dust jacket. Light bumping to top front board corner. Light rubbing/bumping to top fore-corner of the (moderately edge-toned) textblock. Offsetting to rear free endpaper and rear jacket flap from laid-in material: a contemporary review clipped from New York Herald Tribune, included now in archival isolation. Also laid in are the remnants of a belly band announcing the selection of the book as a Daily Main Book of the Month selection. In an unclipped ("7s. 6d. net") jacket with a small chip at head of front panel, light toning to spine, wear along hinges. A near fine copy in a very good (+) jacket. An attractive first printing of this gripping novel of a steamship caught up in an open-ocean hurricane, by the author of "A High Wind in Jamaica."
