Most Secret
by SHUTE, Nevil
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
Item Price
NZ$19.54NZ$16.62
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1965 Blue boards stamped in silver and red on spine, endpaper maps. Uniform edition second series, #U.10 on flap of dj. Tight and tidy, faint foxing in edges and endpapers. The dust jacket is price clipped, bright, edge wear, small sticker at foot of spine, protected in a fitted clear film sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Synopsis
NEVIL SHUTE NORWAY was born on January 17, 1899 in Ealing, London. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan , in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on January 12, 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).
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- Bookseller
- Mainly Fiction
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019578
- Title
- Most Secret
- Author
- SHUTE, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1965
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nevil Shute;
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- Price Clipped
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