MacLean’s first novel. During the Second World War Maclean served in the Royal Navy on the HMS Royalist as leading torpedo operator, almost ten years later after winning a short-story competition run by the Glasgow Herald he came to the attention of Ian Chapman, who worked at the Collins publishing house. Chapman persuaded him to write HMS Ulysses, which was published in October 1955 and was an instant bestseller.
A very good copy, just a hint of faint spotting to edges, contents otherwise generally clean, jacket price clipped with some light shelf wear to extremities, small amount of faint marking to rear panel.
