Most Secret
de SHUTE, Nevil
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Librería
-
Auckland, New Zealand
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Sobre este artículo
London: Heinemann, 1957 Blue cloth titled in silver and red on spine, endpaper maps. Uniform edition, Ist series, code #10 on spine of dj. Just a little light toning in endpapers and edges. Dust jacket is price unclipped, faded at the spine, tiny hole in rear folded edge, protected in a clear plastic sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Mainly Fiction
(NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 012395
- Título
- Most Secret
- Autor
- SHUTE, Nevil
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Reprint.
- Editorial
- Heinemann
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1957
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Nevil Shute;
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