Fortunes Adrift

[1947] 1sted, 1st imp. Book produced to War Economy Standards. 224pp. Blue cloth boards (faded, rubbed at edges and joints, a few marks, rounded at corners and spine ends). Library lending sheet and stamps on front endpapers, else no other library markings. Some marks on toned and well-thumbed pages. Binding softening. In its original, price-clipped and now worn, edge-chipped, corner crumpled and faded dust jacket with old internal tape repairs to spine and fold ends). Vintage, period art work by Micklewright. Dust jacket now in archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong the life of the jacket. It is not adhered to the book or to the dust jacket. Hard to find title. Shaw wrote several sea romance novels and short stories which often appeared in Sea Stories Magazine.