A High Wind in Jamaica (Collection of British and American Authors, Vol. 5006)
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1931.
Price: $45.00
Hardcover. Tauchnitz edition. Originally published in 1929 by Chatto and Windus. 16mo. 272pp., 32pp. Light foxing on page edges, extremities modestly rubbed, near fine without dustwrapper. British novel adapted into film of the same name.
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Richard Hughes
birth name: Richard Hughes
born: 4/19/1900
died: 4/28/1976
nationality: Great Britain
Biography
British writer whose novel A High Wind in Jamaica (1929; film, 1965; original title The Innocent Voyage) is a minor classic of 20th Century English literature. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore