In the Wet

by Nevil Shute

$55 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: William Heinemann, 1953. Adventure/romance FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.354. Bound in red publisher's cloth with title and author's name in gilt to spine, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket depicting farm and woodland animals against a sinister swamp background. Book is fine, jacket toned to spine with a chip at the crown, backed with old newspaper for support at folds and edges. Very good. 'In The Wet' is Nevil Shute's speculative

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