Ronald Syme - Isle of Revolt - First Edition

SYME, Ronald (1903-1989), [STOBBS, William, illustrator].

Isle of Revolt.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1956.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.160. Publisher’s yellow cloth, titles in black to spine and illustration in black to upper board, dust-jacket designed by William Stobbs, with printed price of 10s 6d net. Frontispiece and in-text woodcuts by Stobbs. 

Some light spotting to edges, otherwise internally fine. Wrapper marginally toned to spine, some inoffensive marks, mostly to rear panel. Near fine.

A fictionalised account of the 1796 rebellion against British rule on Grenada.