The Wind of Chance

1963 reprint in the Oxford Children's Library. First English publication 1955. Oxford University Press, 1963. An adventure story about a fifteen-year-old boy who leaves Bordeaux for Africa and finds his future in the forests of the Ivory Coast. Translated by Norman Dale, with black-and-white illustrations by Pierre Collot and a jacket design by William Stobbs. Original red cloth with light handling wear and slight spotting to page edges. Contents clean and unmarked. Original illustrated dust jacket with light edge wear and minor marking, protected in a clear sleeve. Series: Oxford Children's Library, no. 30. Pagination: 188 (matching-edition bibliography).