Item #900588 The Sand Pebbles. Richard McKenna.
The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1962.
First Edition. Hardcover. 5-7/8 x 8-1/2", orange cloth, 597pp. Item #900588

First Edition. Winner of the 1963 Harper Prize (Louis Auchincloss, Elizabeth Janeway, & Philip Roth as judges). 

Set in China on the eve of revolution, the book tells the story of an old U.S. Navy gunboat and her crew, The San Pebbles, who patrol the Yangtze River to protect American missionaries and businessmen from bandits. A maverick newcomer, machinist's mate Jake Holman, dramatically alters the lives of the crew and the people they have come to save – and his own life is altered in the process.

Foxing to edges and cloth, no owner's marks, tight, square, good in very worn, archival tape-repaired dust wrapper with $5.95 price intact, in protective mylar.

Price: $100.00

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