A Grue of Ice

Collins, Sydney, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: H. A. Darroll -- dust Jacket. Author's note. At the beginning of the text there is a map of the South Atlantic Ocean. Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper, by H. A. Darroll, with white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. "This is a novel set on the grand scale. Against a vastness of sea and ice that stretches between Cape Town and Antarctica, and centring on the search for the mysterious Thompson Island which has only been ever sighted twice before in all history, is this adventure set. Bruce Weatherby, a formal naval commander in World War II was the only man with knowledge of its exact position. While sailing towards it from Tristan da Cunha in a native whaling boats searching from the strange natural phenomenon known as "the albatross' foot", he himself is the object of an intensive search by a man who, playing for much high-stakes, is determined to spend nothing and nobody to find Thompson Island, which he knows to contain rich deposits of caesium, the rarest of all metals and an essential component of rocket fuels." -- front fold over blurb. Rubbing of the book edges with tanning of the text block edges and age turning of the pages. Offset tanning and foxing splotches to the end pages. Rubbing of the dust wrapper edges and panels with sunning to wall areas. Tanning and marking of the rear panel with very noticeable foxing to the verso. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 9 - 319, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: H. A. Darroll -- dust Jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 0223536. .