ARCTIC PARADISE

First edition, first printing. Publishers original orange cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh and bright. The contents with spotting throughout including the closed text block edges have a previous owner's bookplate and shelf stamp to the front pastedown in addition to his ownership inscription at the head of the title page. The scarce dustwrapper is rubbed and nicked at the spine tips and corners with very small chips at the extremities. With the publisher's printed price of 7/6 net to the spine, covered with a 3/6 net paper label (for export sale).

"Alfredo the Bohunk was one of America's biggest and most powerful bootleggers, and whiskey was not the only illegal cargo that he smuggled into the country. With him, kidnapping was just a side-line, but it became a factor of considerable importance when he himself was summarily hijacked and held to ransom. This story relates how Lady Anne Pye and her little band of followers from the good ship Fiona took the law into their own hands when the Bohunk tried to double-cross them, and describes the surprising and extremely gratifying results of their drastic action...." [from the blurb].