Requiem for a Wren

by Nevil Shute

$175 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: William Heinemann, 1955. Modern Fiction FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp. viii ; 284; 2 . Newly rebound in blue half calf with marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Attached to the endpapers is the original publisher's red cloth spine lettered in gilt. Some very light spotting to edges of text-block. Presented in an attractive new binding. 'Requiem for a Wren', set in the years just after World War II, is often regarded as one of Shute's

• Binding: Hardcover

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