On The Beach

by Nevil Shute

£135 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Heinemann, 1957. Nuclear Apocalypse Novel FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 20 x 14cm , pp. 8 312. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Rowland, priced at 15s. Contents clean, discreet blue ink ownership to front endpapers, jacket toned to spine and extremities. Very good indeed. Shute's classic post-apocalyptic novel set in Australia is a perennially popular work, and the basis for the

• Printing: first

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