Description

Pease, Howard. Shanghai Passage (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1947)

8vo. viii, 301 pages. Hardcover in blue cloth-covered boards stamped in red. Illustrated end papers. Dust jacket in bright primary colors.

Condition: Clean and tight with some toning to text block as expected in juvenalia of the period. DJ is colorful with little sunning to spine and minor edge wear. A nice copy I would grade in the VG region. DJ has been placed in a Brodart for protection.

“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.

“Russell Freedman, Michael Dirda and E. L. Doctorow all cited Pease’s stories as childhood influences. 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.”Freedman, who won the Newbery Medal and valued realism and accuracy in children’s writing, called Pease his “literary hero.”^{– Wikipedia}