Houp La!

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; [6],314pp. Some chipping and a few short closed tears to jacket extremities, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Humorous novel of the maritime exploits of Dominic William Augustine de Bouverie Welbec Burfleet and his hungover yachting crew. Features a shipwrecked circus and stops in Cairo, Colombo, Singapore, and Java. Published a year before Garstin's own mysterious death by drowning when his dinghy capsized en route to a friend's yacht.