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Buy this book on-line WHEATLEY**, DENNIS: : The Island where Time stands still. [A Gregory Sallust Story.]LONDON.HUTCHINSON & CO, (Publishers) LTD.,1954. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Published September,1954.Printed in Great Britian by William. Brendon & Son Ltd.The Mayflower Press (late of Plymouth) at Bushey Mill Lane,Watford,Herts.] VG+/VG.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (12/6 net) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork by SAX,illustrated front and sunned/faded spine/backstrip with bright,crisp,brown+black lettering to front,spine with slightly dulled white and yellow letters; rear panel with bright, crisp,clean,white background with publisher's advert for other Wheatley titles in blue+black lettering and critics' reviews for 'Come Into My Parlour'; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - miniscule rubbing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip - oneinternal sellotape repair to a diagonal tear at top edge near front gutter's fold/crease,no other nicks, tears or splits present.Top edges very lightly dust-soiled and toned with some minimal,but faint sporadic foxing/ spotting,fore-edges brighter but also with some faint,minimal foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - text body virtually foxing-free, minimal sporadic foxing to a few page-edges - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain navy blue cloth boards/covers with blocked pale green(?) ink blocked lettering to spine/backstrip.Plain white eps - free endpapers with off-setting shadows to ffe to it's front and rear fep,to its reverse, from respective opposing pastedowns and both hinges solid and sound without any tears,splits or cracking.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, viii-xvpp+17-336pp [paginated] includes Gregory Sallust 'letter' to author, contents list/table,a prologue,XXIV (24) chapters,plus [unpaginated] publisher's blurb to half-title,title page,a dedication,and contents list/table.The 8th of 11 Gregory Sallust novels.
The tale opens in the South Seas,near an islannd cloaked in mystery.There,Gregory enters the service of the lovely lady A-lu-te.Together with the jovial Kao Hsuan and the earnest Mandarin Tsai-Ping,they set off to find the last heir to the Imperial Throne of China.Their search takes them to San Franscisco's Chinatown, Then back across the Pacific and through the heart of China up to the borders of Mongolia.After they have travelled 10,000 miles we read: "at last they had reached their journey's end.Since they had set out three people had died unexpectedly and horribly; and Gregory had had five narrow escapes from death."
yet that is only half-way through the story.They still have to neard the man who is said to have carried off the lost Princess,and who lives like a feudal Baron in the great House of Lin.The plot is so intricate that up to the last page it will defy complete solution by the most expert analyst of detective mysteries.But this is no little "whodunnit" argued out afgainst a one-scene drop.The puzzle evolves with the unflagging movement that only adventure on a grand scale could give it.
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