The Strode Venturer

by Hammond Innes

$30 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Collins, 1965. Adventure novel FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.320. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to backstrip, illustrated dust-jacket by Kenneth Farnhill priced at 21s. A very good copy in similar, lightly nicked and marked jacket. Famous as a writer of thrillers and as a nautical man, The Strode Venturer combines these two facets of Innes' character, in a charged Indian Ocean adventure. Item #54570

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