PARA HANDY TALES - The Vital Spark; In Highland Harbours with Para Handy; Hurricane Jack of the Vital Spark by Munro, Neil (writing as Hugh Foulis) - 1997

Scotland: Lomond Books, 1997. 398 pp. All three titles in a single volume. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; store stamped. These were originally published in the Evening News of Glasgow. This collection contains: THE VITAL SPARK: Para Handy Master Mariner; The Prize Canary; The Malingerer; Wee Teeny; The Mate's Wife; Para Handy - Poacher; The Sea Cook; Lodgers on a House Boat; A Lost Man; Hurricane Jack; Para Handy's Apprentice; Queer Cargoes; In Search of a Wife; Para Handy's Piper; The Sailors and the Sale; A Night Alarm; A Desperate Character; The Tar's Wedding; A Stroke of Luck; Dougie's Family; The Baker's Little Widow; Three Dry Days; The Valentine that Missed Fire; The Disappointment of Erchie's Niece; Para Handy's Wedding; IN HIGHLAND HARBOURS WITH PARA HANDY: A New Cook; Pension Farms; Para Handy's Pup; Treasure Trove; Luck; Salvage for the Vital Spark; Para Handy has an Eye to Business; A Vegetarian Experiment; The Complete Gentleman; An Ocean Tragedy; The Return of the Tar; The Fortune Teller; The Hair Lotion; Para Handy and the Navy; Piracy in the Kyles; Among the Yachts; Fog; Christmas on the Vital Spark; The Maids of Bute; Herring - a Gossip; To Campbeltown by Sea; How to Buy a Boat; The Stowaway; Confidence; The Goat; Para Handy's Vote; HURRICANE JACK OF THE VITAL SPARK: Hurricane Jack; The Mystery Ship; Under Sealed Orders; A Search for Salvage; The Wonderful Cheese; The Phantom Horse and Cart; Hurricane Jack's Luck Bird; A Rowdy Visitor; The Fenian Goat; Land Girls; Leap Year on the Vital Spark; Bonnie Ann; The Leap Year Ball; The Bottle King; Mudges; An Ocean Tragedy; Freights of Fancy; Summer Time on the Vital Spark; Eggs Uncontrolled; Commandeered; Sunny Jim Rejected; How Jim Joined the Army; The Fusilier; Para Handy MD; A Double Life; The Wet Man of Muscadale; Initiation; The End of the World; The Captured Cannon; and An Ideal Job.. Later Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Book.