In the Wet.
Melbourne: Heinemann, [1953].
Price: $75.00
About the item
First Australian edition. [vi], 350, [1] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Grey cloth. Very good in good pictorial dust jacket by Val Biro (price clipped, spine panel a little faded, small chips at edges). Paste ghosts on flyleaves. Men at Work 17.1.b.
Item #322663
Shute’s near future conservative Utopian vision of Australia as the dynamic heart of the Commonwealth in the late twentieth century, with the monarchy making a royal progress by air from country to country , and the Queen escaping assassination and coming to live in Australia. Published in the year of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. Uncommon in the Australian edition.
