Lost Island Author:James Norman Hall 1st ed. nice green hardback, no dust jacket if it ever had one. from the 1st page: chance, in a benevolent mood, had consented that the pathways of three olf friends and former comrades in ww1 should cross for the first time in twenty years. the boon deserved to be enjoyed at leisure, and they had gone from san francisco, the place of the une... more »xpected meeting, across the bay to berkeley, where pilip marsh, professor of history in the univ. of CA, had his home, high up in the berkeley hills. fter dinner, mrs. marsh, an understanding woman, had left her husband alone for the evening with his guests, and now they were seated in the library whose great west window framed a maginificent panorama of the bay to the golden gate and beyond. the bridge between the heads, clearly etched at first against the afterglow, faded slowly from view until it could be seen no more....« less