Ultramarine

by Malcolm Lowry

$1,000 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. First edition. A fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. The author's first book. Very scarce. Item #99817 A youthful experiment in maritime modernism, chronicling the voyage of Dana Hilliot, a middle-class Cambridge student working as a deckhand aboard a freighter bound for the Far East.

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