The Funny Bone.
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 about The Funny Bone
Price: $50
J. C. Boonshaft Collection of Nevil Shute
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.
James Stewart Marlene Dietrich. No Highway in the Sky. … Directed by Henry Koster. … Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp...
National Screen Service Corp, 1951. The film is based on Shute's 1948 novel, No Highway. Read More about James Stewart Marlene Dietrich. No Highway in the Sky. … Directed by Henry Koster. …...
Price: $250
Original Art for Shute’s ‘Pied Piper’
Original Dust Jacket Illustration for Pied Piper by Nevil Shute, Morrow.
[New York: 1941]. Published by William Morrow, January 1942. Original Art for Shute’s ‘Pied Piper’. Pied Piper was the source for the 1942 film starring Anne Baxter, Monty Woolley, and Roddy McDowall. Read More about Original Dust Jacket Illustration for Pied Piper by Nevil Shute, Morrow
Price: $2,000
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[Poster] The Biggest Story of Our Time! Stanley Kramer’s production of On the Beach. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire...
National Screen Service Corp, 1959. Striking poster for the 1959 film of On the Beach, Nevil Shute’s 1957 novel of waiting for the end of the world after nuclear holocaust. Read More about Poster] The Biggest Story of Our Time! Stanley Kramer’s production of On the Beach. Gregory...
Price: $75
Beyond the Black Stump.
Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, [1956]. First edition. A novel of the wilds of Western Australia. Read More about Beyond the Black Stump
Price: $75
Beyond the Black Stump.
Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, [1956]. First edition. A novel of the wilds of Western Australia. Read More about Beyond the Black Stump
Price: $50
The Chequer Board.
London: Heinemann, [1946]. Proof Copy. The published edition bears the date 1947 on the title page verso. Read More about The Chequer Board
Price: $375
The Chequer Board.
London: Heinemann, [1947]. First edition. Read More about The Chequer Board
Price: $75
The Far Country.
Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, [1952]. First edition. Read More about The Far Country
Price: $50
In the Wet.
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 about In the Wet
Price: $375
In the Wet.
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 about In the Wet
Price: $75
In the Wet.
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 about In the Wet
Price: $400
In the Wet.
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 about In the Wet
Price: $125
Proof
Kindling.
New York: William Morrow, 1938. First American edition, proof issue. Proof. Published in London as Ruined City, the Morrow edition became Shute’s first commercial successS in the U.S. Here in an advance issue, with the front and spine of wrapper using the dust jacket, and the back wrapper blank. Read More about Kindling
Price: $375
Special Advance Edition
Kindling.
New York: William Morrow, 1938. Special Advance Edition. Special Advance Edition. Published in London as Ruined City, the Morrow edition Kindling, was heavily promoted. Here in a Special Advance Edition, with the publisher’s circular letter on the front cover, “We hope to sell more copies of Kindling than any novel..... Read More about Kindling
Price: $375
Landfall. A Channel Story.
New York: William Morrow, 1940. First American edition. Read More about Landfall. A Channel Story
Price: $75
Lonely Road.
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 about Lonely Road
Price: $75
Marazan.
London: Heinemann, 1951. New edition. First published by Cassell in 1926. A novel of aviation and international revenge. Read More about Marazan
Price: $125
Most Secret.
London: Heinemann, [1945]. First edition. Novel of wartime intrigue and secret missions to the coast of Brittany, written by Shute in 1942 but not published until 1945 because the Admiralty censors refused to grant permission. Read More about Most Secret
Price: $75
In Dust Jacket
The Mysterious Aviator.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First American edition of the author’s second book, published by Heinemann as So Disdained. In Dust Jacket. Read More about The Mysterious Aviator
Price: $1,750
No Highway.
Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, 1948. First edition, probable later impression. Shute’s popular novel was the source for the 1951 film No Highway in the Sky starring Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. The front flap indicates 4th impression and back panel of this jacket..... Read More about No Highway
Price: $50
Proof
An Old Captivity.
New York: William Morrow, 1940. First American edition, proof issue, stamped on fly title, Publication date Feb 21 1940 Price $2.50. Proof. Attractive copy of this uncommon advance issue of Shute novel of an air expedition in search of Norse settlements in Greenland. Read More about An Old Captivity
Price: $375
On the Beach.
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 about On the Beach
Price: $375
On the Beach.
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 about On the Beach
Price: $300
The End of the World
On the Beach.
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 about On the Beach
Price: $125