$150.00
Fly Away Paul
by Victor Canning
Copyright 1936, Reynal & Hitchcock / New York., making this
a First U.S. Edition.
Hardcover book with dustjacket. Original cloth cover is in very
good condition with light wear, corners slightly bumped. Dustjacket has
considerable wear and tear to include some missing pieces. Pages are clean
and in very good condition.
Rear jacket flap advertises the book: Tare Harvest by Eleanor
Peters
Back of jacket advertises the book: Far Forest by Francis Brett Young
"Mr. Finchley's Holiday introduced to America a young novelist with
a talent for telling a racy, cheerful, picturesque and exciting tale. Here
is another story of that genre, with a magnificent zest for living. ...
When Paul Morison, a young American, set out for England, his mother's ancestral
home, he stowed away on the S. S. Pandaric as the result of an impulsive
bet with a friend. The ship was hardly at sea when things began to pop for
adventurous Paul. For fifteen hours he dodged officers and deck hands, then
was discovered and put to work in the kitchen. ... Among the first-class
passengers was the famous American crooner and radio star, Peter Gabriel,
fleeing New York police who wanted him for embezzlement of funds from a
charity which he had sponsored on the air. Through a series of unusual circumstances,
Paul Morison was induced to change places with Peter and to go ashore in
England on his passport, wholly unsuspecting that he would be impersonating
a criminal. ... The subsequent mixture of identities and the situations
which developed when Scotland Yard got on the trail, provide a mad, merry
yarn that is kaleidoscopic in its speed and endlessly entertaining."
324 pages. A very nice copy of this rare, out-of-print book.
(This is not a children's title.)
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