My South Sea Island is 288 pages long and is 111 mm (4 3/8") wide by 179 mm (7 1/16") tall, the same size as the early Penguins. The page collation is:
[1] half-title,
[2] about Red Arrow Books,
[3] title page,
[4] copyright page,
[5-7] preface,
[8] blank,
9-288 My South Sea Island.
The copyright date is 1931.
There are three variant covers: one text, an illustrated one and a "Book Club" edition. The text and book club are illustrated below.
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