Description
Ballantine Books, New York [Published date: First Printing October 1966]. Softcover, 240 pp; 18 cm. Series: Ballantine Books U5008. Mass market paperback. Price on cover: 60 cents. First printing of this edition. No illustrations.
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Condition & notes
In good condition. Cream colored wraps printed in black and red with cover art of a biplane scene. Light bumping and creasing to edges and corners; two small nicks to the top edge of the back cover; light surface rubbing, scuffing and toning; spine shows mild reading crease. Pages lightly toned but clean and unmarked. Binding sound. A novel of aviation and memory by Nevil Shute (1899 - 1960). [from back cover] following his smash bestseller "On the Beach," is Nevil Shute at his enthralling best the taut and poignant story of a great aviator and the women he loved, of a desperate attempt at rescue by air, and of the mysterious influence of the past on those who are trying to save his life. . . Nevil Shute was born in London in 1899 and trained for a career in science at Oxford. A distinguished aviation engineer, working on secret weapons for the British in World War II, he was also one of the foremost modern novelists, author of twenty-four books which have sold more than 4,000,000 copies in their original hardcover editions. His novels, available in paperbound reprint from Ballantine Books include The Legacy, Most Secret, Round the Bend and No Highway all best sellers, and books that hold an enviable reputation in the fiction of our time.