Island in the Sun: A Story of the 1950's Set in the West Indies
WAUGH, Alec
Published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1955
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Book club edition. Yellow cloth moderately soiled, spine cocked, else very good in a very good edgeworn dust jacket with tears on the spine ends and the corners. Seller Inventory # 259279
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Title: Island in the Sun: A Story of the 1950's Set...
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York
Publication Date: 1955
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Island in the Sun, A Story of The 1950's Set In the West Indies
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Farrar, Straus & Co. January 1955, 1955
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Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. shows some wear. Seller Inventory # 85729
Island in the Sun: A Story of the 1950's Set in the West Indies
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Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, NY, 1955
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Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Susan Foster (illustrator). Book Club edition. 439 pp; text unmarked, top corner of free front ep clipped; chips & tears to edges of color il'd dj. Hardcover (dj). Seller Inventory # 29071
Island in the sun: a story of the 1950's set in the West Indies
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Seller: 2Vbooks, Derwood, MD, U.S.A.
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Hard cover. Condition: Very good in fair dust jacket. Book Club Edition. 439 p.; 22 cm. "Book Club edition."-Dust jacket. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. DJ has tears. HC 446. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0059763
Island in the Sun: A Story of the 1950's Set in the West Indies
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Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # GB0006AUHCKI5N01
Island in the Sun; a Story of the 1950'S Set in the West Indies
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Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955
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Seller: Cheryl's Books, Vinemont, AL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback book in good condition, but missing dust jacket if issued one. Clipped corner on the first blank page. Light discoloration on the cover. Seller Inventory # JULY417A0161723
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Island in the Sun, A Story of the 1950's Set in the West Indies
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Seller: Carvid Books, Cranbrook, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 439 pages, Alec Waugh's finest novel. This appears to be the first US edition, published 1955 - on the inner jacket flap is written, at the bottom, "Book Club Edition" in red. The book was therefore most likely first published as a Book Club issue, not unusually so. The sub-title, which appears at the top of the title page, was not used in British editions of this book. Set in "the sub-tropical paradise" of Santa Marta, narrating the islanders' varying fortunes and lives, "ambitions and jealousies", hopes and fears, with racial and political tensions to the fore in this part of the Caribbean. Based loosely on St Lucia where it was largely written. Book has a previous owner's name on front pastedown; the occasional very small mark; pages untidily cut on outside edge at production. Jacket has wear and some small tears along edges, a 2cm tear between lower front and flap, foxing internally. Seller Inventory # V160
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Island In The Sun: A Story Of The 1950's Set In The West Indies
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Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1955
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Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. WAUGH, Alec [538] pp. Farrar Straus & Cudahy 1955 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" To the casual visitor Santa Marta is a sub-tropical paradise, a small sister of Jamaica, Bermuda and Nassau, unmentioned in the colour-splashed brochures of travel agents: an island where the sun shines throughout the year on the sandy beaches of innumerable coves, on the cane-fields and coconut plantations, on the shingled hits of the peasant villages and the fine houses of the white planters handed down through generation after generation, from the Sugar Barons of a past century. But this was not how the newspaper columnist, Bradshaw, saw it when he arrived on his first trip to the Caribbean. Bradshaw found Santa Marta a smouldering volcano. This novel is a brilliantly successful evocation of the atmosphere and the problems of life on a West Indian island. It is a dramatic story, packed with incident and thrilling in this mounting tension. It weaves into the fortunes of a small group of islanders the ambitions and jealousies, the hopes and fears, the complexes and inhibitions of a people to whom the tint of the skin is more important than wealth, or power, or skill, whose tangled history has bequeathed a heritage of passion in an island where the blood never cools. Alec Waugh, 1898-1981, was a British novelist born in London and educated at Sherborne Public School, Dorset. Waugh's first novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), is a semi-autobiographical account of public school life that caused some controversy at the time and led to his expulsion. Waugh was the only boy ever to be expelled from The Old Shirburnian Society. Despite setting this record, Waugh went on to become the successful author of over 50 works, and lived in many exotic places throughout his life which later became the settings for some of his texts. He was also a noted wine connoisseur and campaigned to make the cocktail party a regular feature of 1920s social life. Seller Inventory # 19936