first edition Hardcover
1956 · New York
by SCOTT, J.M.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in about near fine dustwrapper with a little light spotting on the rear board. A dark novel about fear, love, and murder which was elaborated from a series of personal ads that had appeared in a London newspaper and apparently attracted popular attention and curiosity. The plot concerns a group of castaways stranded on an island during the war. Made into a jaunty film featuring Richard Burton, shipwrecked with Joan Collins, unaware that she is a nun(!), as who wouldn't be. (Inventory #: 87715)