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Used paperback book with creasing along the spine and moderate rubbing on front and back covers. There are missing pieces on the back cover to spine as seen in the photo. No writing, notes, or highlighting interferes with the text. Binding is broken half way through text and the text is perfectly readable but tanned from age. This copy is a first edition from Award Books.
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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
- Jolene Nelson (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 238
- Title
- No Highway
- Author
- Nevil Shute
- Book Condition
- Used - OK-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Award Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1977
- Pages
- 271
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- 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....
- First Edition
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.