A Fair Day’s Work

166pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Very lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Text block edges starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 12mo. Set in Liverpool Docks, the Captain of the ocean liner The Good Hope finds himself in the middle of a senseless strike which threatens to delay his ships departure and to make things worse his passenger list includes the shipping line’s chairman.