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Nevil Shute (Nevil Shute Norway) | First Editions
1899 - 1960
See below our stock of Nevil Shute First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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The World, The Air and the Future.
London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. [Aviation and dirigibles] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiii; [3]; 356. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with thirty-one plate and two maps. Internally fine, discreet ownership to front pastedown. Light damp stain to fore edge, some dustiness to edges. Cloth rubbed... More
Vinland the Good.
USA: William Morrow 1946. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 8vo. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers with linen backstrip, in illustrated dustwrapper. Book is fine. Jacket has some edgewear, chipped to spine ends. Very good. Rather uncommon; this title has been long out of print, and has only recently been re-issued by Paper Tiger. Written... More
The Far Country.
London: William Heinemann, 1952. [Romantic adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.333. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, debossed monogram and publisher's devices to boards, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Val Biro. Book is near fine, jacket mildly toned with a few small chips; very good indeed. More
The Far Country.
London: William Heinemann, 1952. [Romantic adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.333; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, debossed monogram and publisher's devices to boards, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Val Biro, with printed price of 12s 6d net. Contents clean, edge of text block a little... More
In the Wet.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1953. [Adventure/romance] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.354. Bound in red publisher's cloth with title and author's name in gilt to spine, in an unclipped pictorial dustjacket depicting farm and woodland animals against a sinister swamp background. A clean copy with a little edgwear and... More
In the Wet.
London: William Heinemann, 1953. [Adventure/romance]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.354. Bound in red publisher's cloth with title and author's name in gilt to spine, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket depicting farm and woodland animals against a sinister swamp background. Light edge wear, jacket frayed at crown, two tiny... More
On The Beach.
New York, NY: Morrow, 1957. First US edition. Octavo, pp.320. Publisher's grey cloth, in a vividly-coloured dust-wrapper. The film production agent's copy bearing their label to front flyleaf. Internally clean. Binding very good indeed, minor edgewear, bumping to spine ends. In a very good dust-jacket, minor shelfwear, price-clipped, perhaps a.... More
The Rainbow and the Rose.
London: Heinemann, 1958. [Aviation thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 306. In publisher's maroon cloth with rose-red pictorial dust-jacket by Stein, priced at 16s. Signed by the author to the title page. A lovely fine copy of the book in a near fine, lightly... More
Requiem for a Wren.
London: William Heinemann, 1955. [Romantic adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Val Biro with printed price of 12s 6d net. Contents clean, some spotting to page edges, ink name to flyleaf, jacket clean and fresh... More
Round the Bend.
London: Heinemann, 1951. [Aviation thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 306. In publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles, illustrated dust-jacket by Biro, priced at 12/6. Contents clean, mixed paper stock toned to centre sections, ink ownership to prelims, jacket clean and fresh with a couple of mended tears... More
Slide Rule. The Autobiography of An Engineer.
London: Pan Books 1968. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.222; [2], advertisements. With four black and white photographic plates. Lightly handled; a crisp, fine copy. More
Stephen Morris. Together with Pilotage.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1961. [Aviation stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 273; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth in an all-over pictorial dust-jacked designed by Fratini, with the printed price of 163 net. Marginal toning to spine and some light handling only; a clean, near fine copy. Two flying... More
Trustee From The Toolroom.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1960. [Adventure novel]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.312. Publisher's maroon cloth in a pictorial dust-jacket designed by Fratini. Book is a little used/dusty, jacket with some creases and tears. A used but serviceable copy. More
The Chequer Board.
New York, NY: William Morrow and co, 1947. First US Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pictorial dustwrapper shows an English country street beside a junk sailing up the Yangon river, in chequered red and black, with white titles to front cover and spine... More
Round the Bend.
New York: William Morrow and Co. 1951. First US edition. Octavo, pp. 341. Publisher's grey cloth with navy cloth spine, silver titles to spine, map endpapers. Pictorial dustjacket designed by Charles Lofgren. Aviation thriller from a master storyteller. London-born novelist Nevil Shute Norway worked as an aeronautical engineer at Vickers... More
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