Shute nevil pseudonym (8 risultati)

Condizione: Near Fine. Toronto: Popular Library (Canadian) , 1963. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6þ - 7þ" tall. M2030-Published May 1963. Trade Paperback. Normal shelf and display wear. There are no marks on the pages except book store stamp and one page clipped. Pied Piper is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1942. The title is a reference to the traditional German folk tale, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". The story concerns an elderly Englishman, John Sidney Howard, who goes on a fishing holiday in France after the Second World War breaks out, but before the fall of France. Entrusted with the care of two British children, and overtaken by events, he attempts to return to England and safety. 236 pp. …

1947, Book Club Edition. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 330pp. 8vo. Book Club Edition. Jacket shows light wear, as may be anticipated. Pages age-toned. Top edge stained blue. Clean, sold copy. Pseudonym of Nevil Shute Norway.

1956, 1st edition. (12mo, cloth) Very good plus in good dust jacket. 297pp. Unclipped dust jacket shows wear, small chips from extremities, rubs at folds, residual tape repair, remaining effective. Former owner's rubber stamp & name to pastedown. Pseudonym of Nevil Shute Norway.

1955, 1st edition. (12mo, cloth) Very good plus in good dust jacket. 284pp. Unclipped dust jacket shows wear, small chips from extremities, rubs at folds, slight tanning, remaining affecting. Former owner's rubber stamp to pastedown. Pseudonym of Nevil Shute Norway.

Condizione: Near Fine. Ballantine, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6þ - 7þ" tall. Stated First Ballentine printing April 1965.Ballantine U6030. [U6030] 1965, 1st thus. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. There is very little shelf wear. The spine is solid and the binding is tight. Round the Bend was a 1951 novel by Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Constantine "Connie" Shaklin, an aircraft engineer who founds a new religion transcending existing religions based on the merit of good work. 304 pp.…

1939, 1st American. (Cloth) Very good in very good dust jacket. 281pp. First American edition, Book-of-the-Month Club issue (with no price on dust jacket) over blue decorated cloth covers. Cloth shows sunning at head and heel of spine. Jacket is chipped accordingly with wear to edges and a dampstain (?) on the front bottom. Pseudonym of Nevil Shute Norway.…

1953, 1st edition. (Cloth) Near fine in very good dust jacket. 354+. Minor edgewear to wrap around jacket. Heinmann blind stamp to rear of near fine red cloth covers. Pseudonym of Nevil Shute Norway.

Octavo, blue cloth, spine stamped in yellow. First U.S. edition. "The journal of an Australian outback priest who copies down from a dying man a utopian vision (or memory) of the British Empire circa AD 2000, anticipates a time when Australia has become the leader of the Commonwealth, royalty has survived handsomely, socialism has faded away, and the Empire is secure." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1104. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-343. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 94. Fortunati and Trousson, eds., Dictionary of Literary Utopias, pp. 304-5. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 248. 1954 gift inscription on the front free endpaper. A fine copy in very good dust jacket trimmed a bit shorter than the book (with illustration by Barye Phillips) with small internal tape reinforcements at the bottom of the rear panel with show through on outer surface and clipped price. (#160468).…