A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper and wraparound band. Top edge green. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with minor spotting to the prelims, heavier to the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper and publisher's Book Society wraparound band that is very slightly toned to the spine and otherwise without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the lower front flap).

The Welsh author's bestselling debut novel. Awarded the the Prix Femina Vie-Heureuse in 1932, in 1998, it was included as number 71 in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (editor's list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century). The basis for the 1965 Alexander Mackendrick directed film starring Anthony Quinn and James Coburn (and a teenage future novelist, Martin Amis).