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Fair. Morrow, 1939 hardcover. Ex-Lib. copy with a few markings. No dust jacket (pasted in inside cover). Faded spine. Clean pages, sound binding.

W. Morrow, 1939. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Sunfading to the spine. Lacks a dust jacket. Previous owner's name (twice) on the ffep.

New York.: William Morrow & Company., 1939. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Sun-fade to spine. Tight, square.. 1 Dark blue cloth over boards. Gold spin end front title, front w/ 2 stars. Blue top page block. Lightly trimmed side, bottom edges. 280 p. 21 cm. Author's note at back re: fictional points. Fictionalization story of a family from the Southhampton region of England caught in the surprise German bombing assaults early in World War II. They retreat to the country along the coast, and to their recreational sailing yacht. The young couple and three young children, one a baby, search for secure water, milk, provisions, warmth, and harboring as bombings drive others away from growing panic, typhoid, cholera. They head to sea with courage and skill, rescue downed British flyers, and in turn are thanked by the Royal Navy, and aided in further journeys. A story of quick thinking in the face of hardship, moving always toward an uncertain future. Nevil Shute, a flyer during WWII, and an… Read More

New York: William Morrow & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1939. First US Edition. Hardcover. Spine of book cover is discolored. A blue insert, with the name "Bina Belle Rosenfeld" on it, has been glued to the front inside cover page. .

New York:: Morrow,, 1939.. Hardcover -. Very near fine in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, dark blue tinting to top edge, in a near fine dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj.) Laid in is the 4 pp BOMC brochure with review of book by Christopher Morley and a bookstore account postcard from Paul Elder's Books in San Francisco. . Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition, but with no price on the dust jacket). A prophetic novel , originally titled What Happened to the Corbetts. and written before World War II broke out in 1939, and before German bombs fell on London and England's south, but partly as a protest against the preparations being made by the English authorities (they were focusing on possibly gas attacks, rather than on the more mundane but likely effects of loss of phones, gas, electricity, water and other services modern life has come to depend upon.) Described as "not so much a study of war as of the human spirit, of its infinite capacity to… Read More