The Hero Of Saint Roger Hardcover - 1955

HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st. Date of Publication: 1955* Publisher: The Popular Book Club in association with Hodder & Stoughton.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, black title & design to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Red & white design to dust wrapper, white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 2/11d. Considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edges & to head and tail of spine with some losses. Spine a little darkened. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, some age to paper throughout particularly to page margins & edges. GD++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 248 pp. text. ii pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: When the idyllic Caribbean island of Saint Roger is nearly destroyed by a devastating hurricane, desperate times call for desperate measures, and the island's Prefect comes up with an original and off-beat idea to regenerate Saint Roger's fortunes. The book is set in the 1950s and the war is still very much on everyone's mind. It's also a wry and satirical look at advertising and publicity, and how easily fervour can be whipped up in a gullible population, and used for political ends. The novel also has a very contemporary relevance with the recent hurricane devastation in the Caribbean.* A GD++ text copy of the 1st thus, with some minor faults in a worn dust jacket.*