Ship Ashore. PARKMAN, Sydney.

First edition, inscribed by the author on the title page to W. S. Smart, the Australian representative for Hodder & Stoughton. From the collection of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, with his posthumous bookplate. The nautical adventure novel concerns the descendants of a 17th-century shipwreck, who are found on a mysterious island off the coast of Borneo. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to upper board and spine in black, top edge blue. With pictorial dust jacket and Daily Mirror wraparound band. Spine cocked, ends slightly bumped, lower board edges a little rubbed; dust jacket with price excised from spine, head of spine creased, occasional nicks and shallow chips to edges, bright; wraparound band spine a little sunned, 30 mm closed tear to rear panel: a very good copy in like jacket and band.