First edition. 254pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Text block edges starting to tan. Free endpapers starting to fox and tan. Pages starting to age. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has shelf wear, light chipping to edges, not price clipped. A dramatic love story set in Singapore in the 1930's in which young, married Helen Transham, feeling hemming in by her narrow social routine, becomes attracted to young John Crane - who also felt a sense of isolation and promise of danger.
