Shanghai Passage (ca. 1937) Howard Pease

Description

Pease, Howard. Shanghai Passage  (Sun Dial press: Garden City, NY, ND) likely the 1937 edition.

8vo. 301 pages. Dust jacket.

Condition: Clean and tight with some toning and discoloration to text block and endpapers. DJ is colorful with sunning to spine and edge wear, more prominent on read cover than front. A nice copy I would grade in the VG region.

“Howard Pease (September 6, 1894–April 14, 1974) was an American writer of adventure stories from Stockton, California. Most of his stories revolved around a young protagonist, Joseph Todhunter (“Tod”) Moran who shipped out on tramp freighters during the interwar years.^[1]

“Russell Freedman, Michael Dirda and E. L. Doctorow all cited Pease’s stories as childhood influences.^[6][7] Reflected Dirda: “For a long period also I sought out the work of Howard Pease, old-fashioned nautical adventures teeming with frequent and arcane allusions to bilge, Lascars, and fo’csles.”^[8] Freedman, who won the Newbery Medal and valued realism and accuracy in children’s writing, called Pease his “literary hero.”^{[9]” – Wikipedia}