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Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto and Windus, 1929.
Price: US$6.93 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$8.44 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1929. No Edition Remarks. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Ownership plate stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: boards are shelf worn, spine is partly torn. foxing and marks. contents are clear and legible. sound binding. fair copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$12.88 + shipping
Description: 191 x 125mm, fine light green cloth, spine lettered, ruled & ornamented in gilt, covers ruled in blind, pp.[iv] 284, tail edges untrimmed. Ownership name on front free endpaper. Spine a little darkened, nicked at head, some scattered foxing, mainly to early & end leaves. Good reading copy. Published a few months earlier in the US b y Harper under the original title An Innocent Voyage, this controversial novel confirmed the author’s reputation as an insightful and original writer.
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. A High Wind In Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$13.53 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1929. No Edition Remarks. 283 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Tears to cloth to spine edges. Water staining to front board.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$15.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good First Edition lacking DJ.published in green with gilt to spine, no jacket.Minor bumps and wear to prominences, creased spine, some speckled marks to spine and to back, sound binding, eps a little darkened, a signature to front pastedown, the internal condition is very good.
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica. First Edition. 1929. Chatto & Windus., 1929.
Price: US$16.17 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library book, usual markings. Cover has some markings but pages are well preserved. comes without dust cover. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$19.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green boards with gold lettering to a faded spine. Very slight lean to the boards. Very neat owners name to inside front board but no further inscriptions, 284pp, pages are clean but tanned. (Any digital image available on request).
Seller: Books Written By (PBFA Member), Northampton, NTH, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: NO JACKET. Hardback 1929. 4th impression. 19x13cm. FOXED BOARDS & PAGES. Clean & tight. Flat pages. NO JACKET. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref 407/26
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition, first printing. Original green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding firm with light marks to boards, splitting to cloth at foot of spine. Neat ink previous owner signature and date in the year of publication to front free endpaper. Bottom edge rough cut. Content generally clean with occasional marks. Light spotting to endpapers and last couple of leaves of text. Not ex-library. 284pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.
Seller: Soin2Books, Kidderminster, WORCS, United Kingdom
HUGHES, Richard. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. London Chatto & Windus 1929, 1929.
Price: US$29.63 + shipping
Description: 8vo., green clothbound hardback gilt; 284pp. A clean copy with no previous ownership inscriptions or annotation. Two small, old bookseller stamps to rear pastedown, browning and foxing to edges plus occasional light foxing throughout, boards a little soiled and damp affected, spine sunned and has one short split to cloth at top. A Good, Sound copy overall. No dust jacket. (Shelf 200) ** Pictures available upon request, if not already displayed here.** The shop is open 7 days a week. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica (first appearance). Life and Letters, England, 1929.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. 242pp. First appearance of this novel, in slightly abridged form, in this. British lit magazine, August, 1929. Book was published later that year by Chatto and Windus.
Seller: AardBooks, Fitzwilliam, NH, U.S.A.
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. London Chatto & Windus 1929., 1929.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Description: G. Owner inscription fep, spine sl sunned, edge wear. 2nd imp edition.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Description: (162pp) card covers, London 1929. Precedes the Chatto & Windus edition. Covers silightly dusty.
Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom
HUGHES, RICHARD. A High Wind in Jamaica. chatto & windus london 1929, 1929.
Price: US$34.22 + shipping
Description: first edition 283pp VG+ cloth bound with top edge stained green (minor discoloration to boards with sl sunned spine, owners inscription on ffep, v sl browning to ep's with faint foxing to half title) lacks d/w
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
HUGHES, Richard. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. London Chatto & Windus 1929, 1929.
Price: US$37.36 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION 8vo. green cloth hardback, gilt. Lacking dust jacket. 284pp. Small engraved bookplate to ffep. Occasional light foxing, mainly to prelims and foredge. Very slight fading to spine and light soiling to boards (please see photos). A GOOD+ COPY. (Shelf 65) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Photos can be sent
Seller: siop lyfrau'r hen bost, Blaenau Ffestiniog, United Kingdom
Hughes, (Richard). A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book is dusty on its edges the interior is bright and clean. The jacket is heavily tanned at the spine and has a few small hole at the fold of the front flap and otherwise some nicks and chips at the edges. Size: Octavo . Category: Literature & Literary; For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Hughes, Richard (1900-1976). A high wind in Jamaica. London : Chatto and Windus, 1929.
Price: US$66.29 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 283 pages ; 20cm. Notes: American edition (Harper & brothers) has title: The innocent voyage. Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century. Jamaica -- Fiction. Pirates -- Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Hughes, Richard (1900-1976). A high wind in Jamaica. London : Chatto and Windus, 1929.
Price: US$82.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 283 pages ; 20cm. Notes: American edition (Harper & brothers) has title: The innocent voyage. Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century. Jamaica -- Fiction. Pirates -- Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hughes, Richard:. A High Wind in Jamaica. London Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 283 pages. Hughes classic tale of the last pirate schooner to sail in Caribbean seas. A Very Good copy in a Very Good unclipped dustjacket. Bright green covers with lightly worn dustjacket with two large stains to rear panel. Pictures available.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$90.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First printing. Tanned and worn dust jacket has loss to the edges and is now in a protective sleeve, page edges tanned, some foxing.
Seller: High Street Books, New Mills, United Kingdom
HUGHES, Richard.. A High Wind in Jamaica.. London: Chatto & Windus,, 1929.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 283 pp. Foxing to page edges and end papers, lean to spine, bookplate inside front cover. In all, very good in very good plus dust jacket with shallow chipping to base and crown, and tips of flap folds.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto and Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green cloth in DJ. Book has previous owner's small attractive bookplate to front pastedown. Pictorial DJ with a short mended tear to verso of spine, and two circular stains next to the parrot on the front panel. A decent copy of a classic book.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
HUGHES, Richard.. A High Wind in Jamaica.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 284 pp. Small 8vo, publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Slightly cocked, with a few very slight bumps to the cloth; tight and sound in a jacket with a tanned spine and some overall light dust-soiling.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Hughes (Richard). A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, a little faint foxing at the beginning, pp. [iv], [284], 8vo, original bright green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, cloth mottled as often, lean to spine, top edge green, others spotted, tape-shadows to endpapers, trace of bookplate removal from front pastedown, dustjacket with browned backstrip panel a little chipped at head, tape shadows to flaps, good.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica - UK 1st. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$115.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Uk edition first impression from 1929 in VG condition, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, there is some foxing to the page block. There is some loss to the jacket along with some scuffing, please see pics. Jacket now in removable protective sleeve.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
HUGHES ,Richard ;. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929., 1929.
Price: US$127.64 + shipping
Description: First English Edition.8vo.pp.iv+284.exlibras plate on free front endpaper.Original green cloth a little spotted else Very good. paper uniformly toned In chipped now protected dust jacket.There is a small hole in the dustwrapper on the spine. Classis English Novel.
Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine & corners bumped; Signed by Author on half title page ; 7.7 x 5 x 1.25"; 284 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: C P Books Limited, Oxted, United Kingdom
HUGHES,, Richard.. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA.. London, Chatto & Windus 1929., 1929.
Price: US$147.80 + shipping
Description: 284pp. 8vo. Original cloth, a little marked, in pictorial dustwrapper, some light browning and edgewear. Bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing to edges. Otherwise a very good copy. First edition.
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition/First printing published by Chatto & Windus, London 1929 Gift inscription to ffep. Spotting to endpages. Browning to page edges. Dustjacket not price clipped. General handling wear with creasing and darkening. Slight loss to top and bottom of spine. Protected in archive cover
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
HUGHES, Richard.. A High Wind in Jamaica.. Chatto & Windus, London., 1929.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 284.Bookplate on front pastedown. Covers faintly mottled. Very good in very good indeed, slightly rubbed dustwrapper with a couple of small nicks and a small chip to head of spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First limited edition #126/150, signed by Hughes on limitation page. Floral decorated boards with red quater cloth, gilt spine text. Top edge gilt. Bookseller label on inside front. Spine-cocked and light soiling, edge wear. No jacket (issued with a glassine one).Hughes' first and most famous novel, publilshed in America as The Innocent Voyage, the book "is a stirring tale about five English schoolchildren who are kidnapped by Captain Jonsen and his crew of pirates during a voyage to England. . The novel was unusual for its unsentimental portrayal of childhood, which broke with Victorian conventions and pioneered a new realism" (Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, p. 484). From the private library of novelist, screenwriter and biographer William "Gatz" Hjortsberg.
Seller: Elk River Books (ABAA/ILAB), Livingston, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition - First appearance in print of this work. The first publication of this classic novel, considered one of the best novels ever written about childhood and possibly an influence on such later novels as Golding's Lord of the Flies. Set in the late 19th century, this is both a poetic and an ironic account of seven young children, on their way to school in England after a hurricane destroyed their home in Jamaica, who wind up on a pirate ship. As explained in the editorial by MacCarthy, it had been the intent of this literary journal to devote an entire issue to one controversy or one work - but the editors wanted to be sure that such a work would be one of 'unusual merit and originality.' and they felt this novel by Hughes met their requirements. Rather than serializing the novel, they increased the length of the periodical and shortened the novel somewhat so the entire story could be presented in one issue - preceding the publication in book format by Chatto and Windus, but as MacCarthy stated 'no one who reads this abbreviated version can fail to want to possess the book.' pp 82-242. Advertisements. Fair condition only in red and tan wrappers (spine slant, some soiling to the covers and edges of textblock, previous owner's name on front cover.) Nevertheless, quite uncommon and interesting,
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
HUGHES, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First English edition. Green cloth gilt. A little foxing on the foredge and spine, else near fine in lightly spine-toned very good or better dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 283pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 orange cloth with decorative floral paper covered boards and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The covers are lightly rubbed and bumped. The spine is discolored and subtly stained. There is a 1/4 inch loss from the cloth at the head of the spine. There are multiple small light moisture stains on the front cover near the spine. The underlying boards are exposed along the edges. There is a bookseller's small label on the rear pastedown. The pages are mildly browned. Signed by Hughes on the limitation page. #118 of 150 copies. Hughes's first novel, A High Wind in Jamaica, was published in 1928 and was a best seller in the United Kingdom and America.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book has very slight offsetting to the free end papers beside the spine where not covered by the wrapper flaps; otherwise a fine, tight copy. Mylar-protected, unclipped(7s. 6d. net) dust wrapper has minor wear at the corners and the spine head, 3 tiny chips at spine heel and minimal darkening to the spine; otherwise very good+ with no other chips or edge wear.
Seller: James N. Beal, TORONTO, ON, Canada
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. London Chatto and Windus 1929, 1929.
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1929. A very good+ book - a little mottled to the boards, with some spotting to the page edges. In a very good unclipped wrapper with some light nicks and tears and a browned spine, with a little fading and off-setting to the spine. "A High Wind in Jamaica" by Richard Hughes is a classic novel published in 1929. Set in the mid-19th century, it follows the adventures of the Bas-Thornton children, who are sent from Jamaica to England after a hurricane devastates their home. The story takes an unexpected turn when the children are captured by pirates. Hughes explores themes of innocence, morality, and the blurred lines between good and evil. The novel offers a gripping narrative that challenges conventional notions of childhood and civilisation, delving into the complexities of human behaviour in the face of adversity.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$199.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition/First printing published by Chatto & Windus, London 1929 Gift inscription to ffep. Spotting to endpages. Browning to page edges. Dustjacket not price clipped. General handling wear with creasing and darkening. Slight loss to top and bottom of spine. Protected in archive cover
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
HUGHES, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica.. London: Chatto & Windus:, First edition,, 1929.
Price: US$206.12 + shipping
Description: 8vo, t.e.g., previous owner's bookplate, orig. cloth backed patterned boards, a trifle sunned on spine. A near fine copy. Signed Limited edition, one of a numbered edition of 150 copies. The Author's first novel.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$219.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VERY GOOD DUST JACKET: Minor wear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, flaps and folds. BOARDS: Very minor soiling/spots to front and back, primarily front BOOK: Nice topstain. Small stain to textblock head. Minor foxing to foredge. Minor offsetting to endpapers. Minor foxing to outside margins, half-title page thru page 1. Hinge peeking, reverse of copyright page. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. ********************************************************** Here on offer is a very nice copy of Richard Hughes' most famous novel - a collectable gem - A High Wind in Jamaica. It is the tale of a group of English schoolchildren captured by pirates on the high seas and the dark drama that soon unfolds. This copy is a 1st UK trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Chatto & Windus in 1929. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ***************************************************** "Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. A tale of seduction and betrayal, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor and unforeseen violence, this classic of twentieth-century literature is above all an extraordinary reckoning with the secret reasons and otherworldly realities of childhood." ******************************************************* Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE (19 April 1900 28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. **** He was born in Weybridge, Surrey. His father was Arthur Hughes, a civil servant, and his mother Louisa Grace Warren who had been brought up in the West Indies in Jamaica. He was educated first at Charterhouse School and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford in 1922. . . . **** He was the author of the world's first radio play, A Comedy Of Danger, commissioned from him for the BBC by Nigel Playfair and broadcast on 15 January 1924. . . . **** He wrote only four novels, the most famous of which is The Innocent Voyage (1929), or A High Wind in Jamaica, as Hughes renamed it soon after its initial publication. Set in the 19th century, it explores the events which follow the accidental capture of a group of English children by pirates: the children are revealed as considerably more amoral than the pirates (it was in this novel that Hughes first described the cocktail Hangman's Blood). . . . **** In 1998, A High Wind in Jamaica was included as number 71 in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, a list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. . . . ********** The above text was taken from, respectively, Penguin publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia. [Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 1965.]
Seller: Second-handsome Books, College Station, TX, U.S.A.
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind In Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, UK, 1929.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Very good. Edges lightly bumped Very good. Edges lightly bumped and spine darkened. Includes the Choice of the Book Society belly band Green cloth with gilt lettering
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto and Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. The first British edition. Pages just a bit toned, light wrinkle on front end paper. Jacket withe the scarce original wrap around band, slightly toned and lightly soiled. Spine darkened to a grater degree.
Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
HUGHES, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hughes,Richard. A High Wind In Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original green coloured cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.There is some darkening to the spine and with small crease line noted to the bottom edge of the front cover.Not price clipped (7s 6d net) showing to the inner flap and the inner flap has a vertical crease line present.This copy has no previous names or inscriptions.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is NO leaning to spine.Tanning and some foxing to the page edges with more spotting to the pre-lims and first few pages of text.where the foxing is present it tends to confine itself to the page margins.,8vo 284pp First Edition 1st Impression [1929]
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Hughes (Richard). A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$289.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The distinctive first UK edition of Hughes' High Wind in Jamaica, a genre redefining work set largely on the high seas - with pirates! Uncommon in the original wraparound. First UK edition. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d, with the original Choice of the Book Society wraparound band. Book very good; jacket a little marked and rubbed, wraparound with chip out of one edge.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover , First UK edition. A beautiful copy of this 90 + year old novel. The book has only some erasure marks on the inside front covers . Covers are as new, gilt lettering on spine is crisp and bright. The Dustjacket is faded a bit on the spine and has a missing 1/2" x 1/2 " piece at the spine bottom. This copy DOES have the Wrap Around Band from "The Choice of the Book Society ". DJ is NOT price clipped ; ( "7s.6d.net"). A great copy of this "Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century" selection.
Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$354.27 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1929 Chatto & Windus London Hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Near fine clean tight binding in near fine unclipped dustjacket. With scarce Book Society wrap around.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Hughes, Richard.. A High Wind in Jamaica.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. (284pp. ) (Clear tape mends to splits along sides of spine holding them together. Crest of spine on jacket chipped with spine itself age toned. ) Basis for a well received film adaptation. ; 5 1/4" X 7 1/2"; 284 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$380.04 + shipping
Description: The first edition of Richard Hughes' best known novel, reviewed as 'a thrillingly good book' by Martin Amis. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.In Hughes's thrilling novel, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is captured by pirates, who gradually form an attachment to the children.The book received much criticism at the time of publication, due to the severity of the perils faced by the children in the novel. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip head, and minor bumps to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Dust wrapper back strip and wrap perimeters lightly age toned. Light chipping to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
HUGHES (Richard). A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto and Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$380.04 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. 8vo. Bound c.2000 by Bayntun-Riviere in full light green morocco, the spine lettered and dated in gilt, hand-marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK edition. 1929. 150 copies were printed for sale in a deluxe binding, signed by Richard Hughes. This is No.141. Near Fine in publisher's 1/4 buckram with decorative hand blocked paper boards. Spine very lightly sunned as is usual in this edition,the page block is bright, white and clean with no markings. Titles and top edge gilt. Pages uncut with some toning to the fore edge - this has not affected the page surfaces however. Published in the USA as 'The Innocent Voyage', the title was changed to its better known title, 'A High Wind in Jamaica" for the UK publication in September the same year. A very nice copy indeed.
Seller: Barracks Books, Nash, United Kingdom
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto and Windus. First English edition, London, 1929.
Price: US$403.08 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The author's first novel. A wonderful hybrid of children, pirates, hurricanes, the tropics and a hard look at what children are capable when placed in a particular set of circumstances. First published in America as The Innocent Voyage, this title later that year in England and the second American edition followed suit; signed by the author on the half-title. Fine in very good dustwrapper darkened on the spine, nicked at the crown and with a couple of chips
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
HUGHES RICHARD. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$431.57 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Bright green cloth boards, gilt lettering on the spine, dark green top edge. Some foxing to the page edges otherwise a VG+ copy in like spine-darkened D/W with a touch of rubbing at the spine ends. This copy has the SCARCE wrap-around-band: the Choice of the Book Society. The D/W is not price-clipped and is priced 7/6 net to the spine as called for. One of the top 100 novels of the last century. The D/W illustration shows a green and orange parrot being blown upside down and backwards along with madly bent green and orange palm trees. The Authors first novel.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first impression of Richard Hughes' best known novel, an interesting work on the ending of the British Empire. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel following the lives of the Bas-Thornton children, who are raised on a plantation in Jamaica after the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire.Written by Richard Hughes, who is best known for this novel. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. A couple of very light marks to the boards. Spots to the fore edge. Dust wrapper with very light edge wear. Spine is age-toned, with some minor handling marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with some spots to the first and last few pages. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
HUGHES, Richard.. A High Wind in Jamaica.. London: Chatto and Windus, 1929, 1929.
Price: US$547.51 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first impression. Hughes's first and most famous novel, A High Wind in Jamaica was "an immediate best-seller", which "seeks to explode, by means of irony, the Romantic literary tradition of the child as essentially innocent, which had become decadent in the popular Victorian novel" (ODNB). This copy contains a loosely inserted leaf from a 1982 Blackwell's catalogue listing it for sale. The book was originally published in America a few months before under the title The Innocent Voyage. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers panelled in blind. With dust jacket and Book Society wraparound band. Newspaper review of Penelope Hughes's biography of her father mounted to front pastedown. Faint browning to endpapers, paperclip indentations with slight rustmarks to front free endpaper and three following leaves, slight foxing to edges; minor toning and foxing to jacket, several small nicks to extremities, unclipped; wraparound with faint foxing and short closed tear: a very good copy in near-fine jacket and wraparound.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: DH in archival cover chips sunned. Inscribed by the author, For/Barker Hummett/from/Rrichard Hughes/Feb. 14, '30
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1929. A very good+ book - a little mottled to the boards - SIGNED by the Author to the title page without dedication, in a very good unclipped wrapper with some light nicks and tears and a browned spine, with a little fading - complete with the rare wrap-around band. "A High Wind in Jamaica" by Richard Hughes is a classic novel published in 1929. Set in the mid-19th century, it follows the adventures of the Bas-Thornton children, who are sent from Jamaica to England after a hurricane devastates their home. The story takes an unexpected turn when the children are captured by pirates. Hughes explores themes of innocence, morality, and the blurred lines between good and evil. The novel offers a gripping narrative that challenges conventional notions of childhood and civilisation, delving into the complexities of human behaviour in the face of adversity.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom