In the Wet

by Nevil Shute

$125 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. vi ,354, 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Red cloth. Fine in very good pictorial dust jacket. Men at Work 17.1.a. Item #322872 Shute’s near future conservative Utopian vision of Australia as the dynamic heart of the Commonwealth in the late twentieth century, with the monarchy making a royal progress by air from country to country, and the Queen escaping assassination and coming to live in Australia.

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