208pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; silver titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Text block edges tanned; lender's stamp on top edge. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Lender's pocket and sheet on front endpapers, small stamp on title; first and last pages. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring some light soiling to early pages. Dust jacket attached to boards at flaps; has light shelf wear, 2x 2cm closed tears on front, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.
Novel set in the 1930s in which the trans-Pacific liner Manila sets sail from Shanghai from Hong Kong carrying millions of dollars in silver coins and gold bricks and falls victim to pirates.
