The Shetland Plan.

  • Taffrail [i.e. Dorling, Henry Taprell]
  • London: Hodder & Stoughton, Limited 1939

£85

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Description

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 352. Original navy-blue boards, spine and front board lettered in white, dustjacket printed in blue, black, and red. A little spotting to edges. Dustjacket rubbed at extremities, spine panel sunned, a little worn to head and tail with old internal tape reinforcement to spine panel and front flap fold, flaps a bit foxed. Gift inscription dated Xmas 39 to flyleaf along with later ownership embossment.

Notes

An adventure novel - spies in submarines in the Shetlands - by 'Taffrail', or Henry Taprell Dorling (1883-1968), whose naval service gave his fiction significant verisimilitude. Scarce in jacket.

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