Uncharted Seas
by WHEATLEY, Dennis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson, N.d. [1938]. 8vo, pp. 408, 8pp. catalogue of Wheatley titles and 24pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine, publisher's name in gilt to front board. Map endpapers. Spine ends a little bumped, otherwise a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, some light general edgewear, and an unobtrusive 1cm closed tear to top edge of rear panel. Dust jacket and endpapers design by Diana Younger. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'For W. Royden, with the best of good wishes from his friend Dennis Wheatley'. Walter Royden (born Walter Smith) worked in publishing, and was the father of the actor Auriol Smith. An early Wheatley title, a lost world novel, and the basis for Hammer's The Lost Continent (1968), directed by Michael Carreras and starring Eric Porter and Hildergard Knef. Inscribed, in the dust jacket, and rare.
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- Bookseller
- Neil Pearson Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4692
- Title
- Uncharted Seas
- Author
- WHEATLEY, Dennis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Hutchinson, N.d. [1938]
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions
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