Item #000012529 The Forbidden Voyage. Earle Reynolds.

The Forbidden Voyage

London: Cassell (1962), 1962. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-280, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 21/- net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates of black and white photographs. Reynolds' book tells his story of a protest: in May of 1958 the Atomic Energy Commission of the United States forbade all persons from traveling in a section of the Pacific ocean as they were to conduct more nuclear tests there. Reynolds took his family and a Japanese individual on his ship and sailed into the area. He was subsequently tried and convicted by an American court. Very Good / Very Good. Item #000012529

Minor foxing to the top textblock and a bit of soiling to the bottom edges of the boards; jacket has a sticker ghost and minor soiling on its rear panel.

Price: $35.00

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