The White Rajah, Nicholas Monsarrat -First Edition

The White Rajah, Monsarrat, Nicholas. Published by Cassell and Company, London, 1961. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½” tall. 406 pages. Black boards, green gilt spine titles. Volume in fine condition without marks, tears or folds. Clipped jacket protected in mylar has chip to top back edge and light rubbing to edges; otherwise fine.

A historical novel about ‘piracy, plundering and barbarism’ set in the mid-nineteenth century on an island in the Java Sea.  002515  $30

Nicholas Monsarrat (1910-1979), was a British novelist.  A pacifist, Monsarrat served in World War II, first as a member of an ambulance brigade and then as a member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR). Monsarrat ended the war as commander of a frigate and drew on his wartime experience in his postwar sea stories. He served in Canada as a British information officer from 1953 to 1956, and intermittently after that date. He wrote science fiction, historical fiction, spy thrillers and war novels. He is perhaps best known for his sea stories including The Master Mariner, an epic tale of the sea and seafaring from the sixteenth century to near the end of the twentieth.