A High Wind in Jamaica
London: Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. First English edition, first impression. Octavo. Red buckram-backed with decorated papercovered boards, gilt spine lettering and gilt topedge. A bit of foxing on the endpapers, else near fine. Copy number 156 of 157 numbered copies Signed by Hughes.
Item #580503
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