Richard Hughes — First Edition Novels by Richard Hughes

London, Chatto & Windus, 1929-1961. Cloth. A fantastic three volume set of first edition works by British writer Richard Hughes, with two original dust wrappers. A three volume set of novels by Richard Hughes.The first editions.In the original cloth bindings. With two original dust wrappers.Including:(1929) A High Wind In Jamaica.(1938) In Hazard; A Sea Story.(1961) The Fox in the Attic.Richard Hughes was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. He wrote only four novels, the most famous of which being A High Wind In Jamaica. Set in the 19th century, it explores the events which follow the accidental capture of a group of English children by pirates, but the children are revealed as considerably more amoral than the pirates In 1938, he wrote an allegorical novel, In Hazard, based on the true story of the S.S. Phemius, which was caught in the 1932 Cuba hurricane for four days during its maximum intensity.The Fox in the Attic is the first part of the unfinished novel The Human Predicament. The protagonist, a young Welsh aristocrat named Augustine Penry-Herbert, discovers the body of a young girl and is incorrectly suspected of having something to do with her accidental death, causing him to flee to Germany.  In publisher's original cloth bindings. In two original dust wrappers. Externally, very smart. Light bumping to the heads and tails of the spines. Very light spotting to endpapers. Volume of 'A High Wind In Jamaica' is lacking the front free endpaper. Dust wrapper for 'The Fox in the Attic' is price clipped, with chipping to edges, and the odd closed tear, with sunning. Dust wrapper for 'In Hazard' is poor, with the wrap being in two pieces, split down the spine. With chipping to edges, fragile joints to flyleaves, and sunning. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Fair.