The Tontine (Volume II)

An apparent first edition from Doubleday & Co, in a book club dust jacket. Volume two only (of two). 409-816pp, with double spread illustrated title page and further line drawings all by Herbert Ryman. In blue-ish green cloth-covered boards. Boards gently rounded at corners and spine tips, text block edges lightly dust marked, else neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, a little rubbed and chipped at edges and folds with minor loss at spine tips. The second volume of Costain's finest historical fiction novel, a story of the tontine -part lottery, part insurance - and the people caught up in it, right at the end of the Battle of Waterloo