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Ruined City - When Henry Warren, director of an English bank, lands by chance in a hospital in a bleak Northern town that has been ruined by the closure of its shipyard, he discovers nothing less than a new purpose for his life. Moved by the fate of the town’s inhabitants, Warren risks his fortune and reputation to save the shipyard and restore the town to its former prosperity. In seeking to change the fate of the town, he radically changes his own.
Pan paperback, 1969 reprint, originally 1938. Previous bookshop stamp to the title page
An Old Captivity - A young airman, an Oxford don and his beautiful daughter are on an expedition to the Arctic. This time-travel story tells how they are transported by explorers of another the Norsemen and their long ships of a thousand years before.
Originally 1940, this reprint 1967. Tanning to pages.