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Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$128.76 + 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. 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.
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$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Made into the 1965 film. Limited edition: this copy is number 72 of 150 copies. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Light shelf wear and aging, a bit faded along the spine, previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down, light foxing to endpapers, else very good in decorated paper covered boards with red cloth along the spine, top edge gilt. No dust jacket. ; 284 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, 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.
Richard Hughes. A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$386.29 + 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$407.21 + 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$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$772.58 + 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