The Call of Peter Gaskell

by George C. Wallis
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The World's Work First Edition

Description: Small slim hardback book published by The World's Work publisher in 1948. The copyright page states 'First published 1948' and no further printings are listed. ISFDB lists only this one publication of this novel.

From the front flap: This is the story of a weird, mysterious region of the earth, the great Amazonian jungle known as the Matto Grosso; and here is found reigning a truly Amazonian queen, the descendant of the Incas of Peru, one of the great races of mankind of which the history is only a half-told tale.

Xia is a worthy scion of that noble race; but to beauty and psychic force she adds an overmastering ambition to rule the world and to revive the ancient glory and civilisation of her ancestors.

How she entangled into the web of her tragic destiny Peter Gaskell, a Yorkshire farmer and two of his friends, leads to the unfolding of Mr. Wallis's enthralling romance.

Condition: Binding - good, top and bottom of spine bumped, corners slightly bumped, a few slight dings to the board edges, cloth a little soiled (most the edges), page edges tanned and soiled, page surface clean, book is intact with no loose or missing pages, no highlighting or underlining, no writing on text pages (previous seller's pencil note on the front free endpaper). Dust jacket - acceptable, quite a bit of the spine missing, lots of mending and reinforcing of the jacket with tape which has turn brown and is probably fragile, quite a bit of rubbing, age darkening and soiling, front flap is price clipped, in dust jacket protector.

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