IN THE WET

by Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute Norway

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1953. Octavo, blue cloth, spine stamped in yellow. First U.S. edition. The journal of an Australian outback priest who copies down from a dying man a utopian vision or memory of the British Empire circa AD 2000, anticipates a time when Australia has become the leader of the Commonwealth, royalty has survived handsomely, socialism has faded away, and the Empire is secure. - Clute and

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