Benchley, Peter

The Island

Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Very Good / Very Good. Item #008141

First edition stated. Quarter turquoise cloth, orange paper boards. 302 pp. Spine tilted. Sunning to cloth at spine head. Dust jacket is price clipped, edge worn, creased in a few places. How could hundreds of boats, carrying more than two thousand people, simply disappear? Why does no one know or care to know? Blair Maynard, an editor at a weekly news magazine, becomes obsessed about finding out what's going on. And so begins The Island, a stunning new novel by Peter Benchley, the master of suspense and adventure who also wrote Jaws and The Deep.

Price: $32.00