Ordeal
by Shute, Nevil
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Navy blue cloth. Very good in good dust jacket (price clipped, some rubbing and chipping, small loss at top fold of front panel)
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1939. First Canadian edition, from American sheets. Published by Heinemann as What Happened to the Corbetts. [6], 280, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Navy blue cloth. Very good in good dust jacket (price clipped, some rubbing and chipping, small loss at top fold of front panel). Uncommon. First Canadian edition, from American sheets. Published by Heinemann as What Happened to the Corbetts. [6], 280, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Canadian Edition. Uncommon Canadian edition of this prewar novel of the bombing of Southampton and the adventures of the resourceful Peter Corbett.
Shute wrote this novel because he felt that the home defense preparations, with emphasis on gas being used against civilian populations, were simply wrong: "Most of what Shute foresaw transpired; heavy bombing, broken water and sewer lines, and epidemics" (Smith). Smith, pp. 43-7; Men at Work 5.2.b
Shute wrote this novel because he felt that the home defense preparations, with emphasis on gas being used against civilian populations, were simply wrong: "Most of what Shute foresaw transpired; heavy bombing, broken water and sewer lines, and epidemics" (Smith). Smith, pp. 43-7; Men at Work 5.2.b
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- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 322675
- Title
- Ordeal
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- [6], 280, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Navy blue cloth. Very good in good dust jacket (price clipped, some rubbing and chipping, small loss at top fold of front panel)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Canadian edition, from American sheets. Published by Heine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Australian | British
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