Description
Good dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added, rub on the front cover, price clipped. The Very Good binding is olive green cloth over boards, script P G impression on the front cover, publisher impression on back cover with gilt stamping on the spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Typography, binding and jacket design by George Salter.
About the book:
They tell the story of the Snow Goose today in London, in Dover, in the Channel ports-wherever there are men gathered who saw the mighty bird soar calm and unafraid through the leaden death and blanketing smoke of Dunkirk, and who owe their safety to the dark twisted man and the small boat that those great black-tipped wings convoyed. They tell of the Snow Goose, all they know of her; but what they tell is only a little of the story. The truth lies far from blazing Dunkirk, the terrible Stukas, the offshore transports, and the huddled men on the beaches. The truth lies in a distant Channel marsh, up winding estuary away from the sea; and it involves not alone the Canada-bred wanderer of the airways, but Philip Rhayader and the blonde girl Frith as well.
Theirs is a curious story, wild and simple and strangely moving in its simplicity; and Paul Gallico tells it with all his superb narrative skill and with a remarkable tenderness of vision.
About the author:
Paul Gallico was one of America’s most celebrated writers. Since the first appearance of The Snow Goose in 1941, his reputation grew steadily and among his many best-selling novels were Love, Let Me Not Hunger, The Small Miracle, the Mrs. Arris series, and The Poseidon Adventure. In addition, he was a frequent contributor to leading magazines. Mr. Gallico died in 1976.
