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Trustee From The Toolroom
de SHUTE, Nevil
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- First
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- Librería
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Heinemann, 1960. Hardback. First edition, 1960. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. VG; boards clean and bright, light foxing to endpapers, pages clean and tightly bound with Good un-clipped dust jacket; edgeworn and chipped in a few places, two inch tear along crease on spine. Published: Heinemann, 1960
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
- Roy Turner Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 5881
- Título
- Trustee From The Toolroom
- Autor
- SHUTE, Nevil
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Heinemann
- Fecha de publicación
- 1960
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Roy Turner Books
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Stockport, Cheshire
Sobre Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
