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No Highway

No Highway

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No Highway

by Nevil Shute

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William Heinemann Ltd, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1951. Reprinted. 315 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Light cracking to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning with visible staining, sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has light sunning with soft crushing to ends.

Synopsis

NEVIL SHUTE NORWAY was born on January 17, 1899 in Ealing, London. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan , in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on January 12, 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).

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Bookseller
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Title
No Highway
Author
Nevil Shute
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
William Heinemann Ltd
Date Published
1951

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Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Text Block
Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Acceptable
A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....

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