Winston Graham — The Riddle of John Rowe

London and Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1935. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of the third novel by prolific novelist Winston Graham, author of the Poldark series. This work is a suspense novel set at sea, telling the culmination of a lifelong argument between John Rowe and Arnold Gresham.Winston Graham OBE (1908-2003) was the English novelist of a profuse number of works spanning thrillers, period words, short stories and plays. His most famous work was the twelve volume Poldark series, with the first work first published in 1945; this was later turned into a successful television adaptation.In a clipped dust wrapper.This is a very uncommon early work of Graham's, especially scarce complete with the dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally generally smart, spine is a little cocked and the dust wrapper has left remnants pasted to the cover and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is clipped and in three pieces, with chips to all extremities. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Fair.