Search Results: gale force by trevor elleston 1920 1995

London: William Heinemann, 1956. [Shipwreck Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 262 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Francis Russell Flint. Blue ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. Spotting to edges, jacket price-clipped, with some light wear and creasing to edges. Very good. A merchant ship gets into trouble near Land's End in Cornwall during a big storm, and the Captain must fight to keep the ship afloat after the crew have been evacuated.