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Round the Bend
by Shute, Nevil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Red cloth, map endpapers, spine titled in gilt. Very good plus copy without the dust jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, 1951. First edition. [vi], 362, pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Red cloth, map endpapers, spine titled in gilt. Very good plus copy without the dust jacket. First edition. [vi], 362, pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Men at Work 15.1.a
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
- The Old Mill Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 322870
- Title
- Round the Bend
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- [vi], 362, pp. 1 vols. 12mo
- Book Condition
- Used - Red cloth, map endpapers, spine titled in gilt. Very good plus copy without the dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Australian | British
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- Gilt
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