The Rainbow and the Rose

by Nevil Shute

£45 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Heinemann, 1958. Aviation thriller FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp. vi ; 306. In publisher's maroon cloth with rose-red pictorial dust-jacket by Stein, priced at 16s. Child's gift inscription to flyleaf, spine of jacket sunned as usual. Very good. Romantic adventure novel set in remote Tasmania, from a master storyteller. Item #64238

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