The Silver Land, J. M. Scott — 1st Edition

£86.40

The Silver Land, J. M. Scott — 1st Edition

Name: The Silver Land, J. M. Scott — 1st Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 6756
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Publication: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937

Formatting: 8vo, pp. 314.

Condition Report: Very Good. The original black cloth binding remains tight, square, and remarkably well-preserved, with sharp corners and unblemished silver-white tooling to the spine. The text block is structurally sound, presenting with only light, uniform age-toning typical of pre-war paper stock, completely free of extraneous foxing or distracting internal blemishes. It is accompanied by its original, unclipped dust jacket (retaining the 7/6 net price to the spine), displays excellent colour retention to the striking landscape panels, with only minor rubbing along the hinges and slight chipping to the head and tail of the spine panel, avoiding any loss to the typography.

Catalogue Note: The first edition, first printing of J. M. Scott's second novel. James Maurice Scott (1906–1986) was a seasoned polar explorer who drew heavily upon his own expeditions to Greenland and Labrador to inform his fiction. Following the critical success of his biography of Gino Watkins, Scott pivoted to thriller writing with Snowstone and subsequently this title.

Copies of this pre-war Arctic thriller remaining in their original, unrestored dust wrappers are increasingly uncommon on the open market, particularly in such a bright state of preservation. The wrapper artwork itself is a superb example of 1930s publisher design.

When a man in a small boat washes ashore on a remote Hebridean island, he is found dying of exhaustion by characters familiar from Scott's debut novel. This fateful encounter triggers a desperate and thrilling expedition into uncharted polar regions, culminating in the discovery of a 'Lost World' in the Arctic where a secluded tribe of Stone Age Inuit force the travellers into a dangerous game of survival.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: J. M. Scott

Book Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Adventure

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 314

Book Publication Year: 1937

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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