Item 322870Round the Bend.
Price: $50
Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, [1951]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Round the Bend Add to Wish List
Item #322870
A comprehensive collection of the works of engineer and novelist Nevil Shute (1899-1960), who was raised in England and Ireland, and was educated at Shewsbury. After military service in the first world war, Shute studied engineering at Balliol College, Oxford, and worked at the de Havilland aircraft company. He joined the team working on the R100 airship and began writing novels in his spare time. The crash of the rival airship R101 ended British appetite for lighter than air flight, and in 1931 Shute started a passenger aircraft company which he ran until 1938, when he became a full time writer. “Some of his earlier fiction, by taking advantage of his intense and very up-to-date knowledge of aeronautics (and of boffins or back-room boys), verges very closely on sf” (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). His novels were popular on both sides of the Atlantic. Disillusioned with British politics after the second world war, Shute moved to Australia, where he set his two best-known works, A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. He wrote an engaging memoir of his early career, Slide Rule. The J. C. Boonshaft Collection of Nevil Shute was formed in the 1980s and 1990s and includes some choice inscribed books and proof copies.
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Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, [1951]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Round the Bend Add to Wish List
Item #322870
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Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, [1952]. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Far Country Add to Wish List
Item #322876
Price: $375
Melbourne: Heinemann, [1953]. First Australian edition. 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..... Read More Item Details for In the Wet Add to Wish List
Item #322662
Price: $75
Melbourne: Heinemann, [1953]. First Australian edition. 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..... Read More Item Details for In the Wet Add to Wish List
Item #322663
Price: $400
Melbourne: Heinemann, [1953]. First Australian edition. 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..... Read More Item Details for In the Wet Add to Wish List
Item #322683
Price: $75
London: Heinemann, [1953]. New edition, fourth printing. First published by Cassell in 1932. An excellent thriller of smuggling and extremist politics by Shute, “the first novel that shows his full powers” (Smith). Read More Item Details for Lonely Road Add to Wish List
Item #322855
Price: $125
Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, [1953]. First edition. 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..... Read More Item Details for In the Wet Add to Wish List
Item #322872
Price: $250
New York: William Morrow, 1954. First American edition. The engaging memoir of aviation engineer and author Nevil Shute, up to the year 1938. Read More Item Details for Slide Rule. The Autobiography of an Engineer Add to Wish List
Item #322660
Price: $250
London: Heinemann, 1954. First edition. The engaging memoir of aviation engineer and author Nevil Shute, up to the year 1938. Read More Item Details for Slide Rule. The Autobiography of an Engineer Add to Wish List
Item #322665
Price: $225
London: Heinemann, [1955]. Proof Copy. Read More Item Details for Requiem for a Wren Add to Wish List
Item #322628
Price: $1,750
Melbourne: Heinemann, [1955]. First Australian edition. Inscribed to His Wife. Inscribed “For Frances from Nevil with love April 1955” and signed on the title page with his full name, Nevil Shute Norway. Read More Item Details for Requiem for a Wren Add to Wish List
Item #322661
Price: $175
London: Heinemann, [1955]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Requiem for a Wren Add to Wish List
Item #322688
Price: $75
London: Heinemann, [1955]. First edition, fourth impression. The engaging memoir of aviation engineer and author Nevil Shute, up to the year 1938. Read More Item Details for Slide Rule. The Autobiography of an Engineer Add to Wish List
Item #322857
Price: $75
Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, [1956]. First edition. A novel of the wilds of Western Australia. Read More Item Details for Beyond the Black Stump Add to Wish List
Item #322873
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Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, [1956]. First edition. A novel of the wilds of Western Australia. Read More Item Details for Beyond the Black Stump Add to Wish List
Item #322875
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London: Elek Books, [1956]. With Off the Beat, a pitch perfect burlesque of the fiction of Nevil Shute at pp. 46-51, in the section entitled The Mocking Bird. Read More Item Details for The Funny Bone Add to Wish List
Item #322877
Price: $375
Melbourne: Heinemann, [1957]. First Australian edition. The acclaimed novel of Australians facing the consequences of a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere. Filmed in 1959 starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire. Read More Item Details for On the Beach Add to Wish List
Item #322619
Price: $125
New York: William Morrow, 1957. First American edition. The End of the World. The acclaimed novel of Australians facing the consequences of a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere. Filmed in 1959 starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire. Read More Item Details for On the Beach Add to Wish List
Item #322677
Price: $250
London: Heinemann, [1957]. First London edition. The acclaimed novel of Australians facing the consequences of a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere. Filmed in 1959 starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire. Read More Item Details for On the Beach Add to Wish List
Item #322689
Price: $125
London: Heinemann, [1958]. First edition, Australian issue of dust jacket. Read More Item Details for The Rainbow and the Rose Add to Wish List
Item #322668
Price: $175
London: Heinemann, [1958]. First edition, Australian issue of dust jacket. Read More Item Details for The Rainbow and the Rose Add to Wish List
Item #322684
Price: $150
London: Heinemann, [1958]. First edition, Australian issue of dust jacket. Read More Item Details for The Rainbow and the Rose Add to Wish List
Item #322868
Price: $3,750
[N.p: n.d., 1960]. "6th Carbon" of the typescript of the last novel written by Shute, published posthumously. Publsihed by Heinemann and Morrow in 1960. Typescript of Shute’s Final Novel. Inscribed from “To Val with love from Heather Norway” Shute typescript material is exceedingly scare in the market as his papers..... Read More Item Details for Trustee from the Toolroom. Carbon Typescript, inscribed by his daughter Add to Wish List
Item #322607
Price: $750
London, New York, Melbourne: Heinemann, Morrow, Sun Dial Press, etc, 1939-1960s. A deep bibliographical collection of the works of popular novelist Nevil Shute, including first editions, reprints, book club editions, and paperbacks. Comprising: So Ordained (1928). Heinemann uniform edition [1952]. Blue cloth. Toned. Kindling (1938). First American edition. Oatmeal cloth..... Read More Item Details for [Works] Bibliographical collection of the writings of Nevil Shute Add to Wish List
Item #322767
Price: $225
London: Heinemann, [1961]. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Earliest state of this posthumous work, which publishes two early novels by Shute: Stephen Morris (written 1923) and Pilotage (written 1924). Read More Item Details for Stephen Morris Add to Wish List
Item #322630