First Edition hardback of The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico, published by Heinemann London 1869.

Hardback cloth 347 pages in very good condition. No inscriptions, clean and bright throughout but for a small edge stain to blank free endpaper.

Dust jacket clipped with corner and edge rubs, small closed tears, fair to good condition.

First edition of the novel which became the 1972 Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters and Red Buttons.

The Poseidon Adventure concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner, the S.S. Poseidon, due to an undersea earthquake that causes a 90-foot (27-meter) wave, and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to reach the bottom of the liner's hull before the ship sinks.