Trustee From the Toolroom
by Shute, Nevil
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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Trustee From The Toolroom
by Nevil Shute
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- January 1970
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London: Heinemann, 1960. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5. None. A novel by aeronautical engineer Nevil Shute Norway. The first edition. 'Trustee From the Toolroom' was published posthumously following Shute's death earlier the same year. The plot follows the actions of a modest technical journalist Keith Stewart. Stewart… Read more about this item Item Price
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Trustee From The Toolroom
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Heinemann, 1960. Hardback. First edition, 1960. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. VG; boards clean and bright, light foxing to endpapers, pages clean and tightly bound with Good un-clipped dust jacket; edgeworn and chipped in a few places, two inch tear along crease on spine. Published: Heinemann, 1960 Item Price
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Stationery Office Books: London, 1996. Soft. Very good-. 8vo,81/4. Very good-. 94pp.
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London: Heinemann, 1960. 1st. hardback. Almost fine. Unclipped d/j in protective wrapper, clean pages and tightly bound. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Happiest and last of Shute's novels. Aman happy with his model engineering suddenly becomes Trustee to a 10 year old Girl. Item Price
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London: Heinemann, 1960. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5" . None . Bright first edition, first impression of Nevil Shute's last novel, enclosed in its unclipped dust wrapper. Shute's final novel published posthumously. The first edition, first impression published in the UK by Heinemann. Following the story of miniature mechanic contributor Keith Steward as… Read more about this item Item Price
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Trustee from the Toolroom
by SHUTE, Nevil
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London: Heinemann, 1960 A good copy in a very good dust jacket. The front free endpaper has been excised and the edges are foxed. Item Price
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Trustee from the Toolroom
by Shute, Nevil
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London: Heinemann, 1960. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/good. red cloth, gilt lettering, mylar wrapped dust jacket unclipped, 312 pp, first edition, some tears to dj.
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Trustee from the Toolroom
by Nevil Shute
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Heinemann, 1960. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1960. First Edition Thus. 312 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Trustee from the Toolroom
by SHUTE Nevil
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- 1960
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London: Heinemann, 1960 first edition, unclipped DW has some splits at joint ends and corners, light rubbing, browning, some foxing, tape repair to verso of DW some mild foxing to closed edges and endpapers, closed top edge dusty, tidy but aged copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Item Price
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Melbourne, Australia: Penguin Books, 2014. Book. Good. Large Softcover. First Australian Trade Paperback Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Large softcover, first Australian trade paperback edition, 546gms, 387 pages. A breathtaking novel of heartbreak and heroism, love and longing by a powerhouse Australian storyteller. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and moderate page… Read more about this item Item Price
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Trustee From The Toolroom
by Nevil Shute
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- 1960
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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Heinemann, 1960. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1960. Reprinted. 312 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Trustee from the Toolroom
by Nevil Shute
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- 1960
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Heinemann, 1960. Hardcover. Good. 1960. First Edition. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner… Read more about this item Item Price
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Trustee from the Toolroom
by Nevil Shute
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- 1961
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July 1961; 1st printing. Lightly scuffed covers and spine; some age darkening with faint foxing-like marks to covers; light rubbing wear at spine end corners; tightly bound; text pages age darkened; inside front cover and testimonial page opposite are foxed; may be missing leaf 3-4 - 1st text page follows copyright page; last 30 leaves show damp stain at top… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Heinemann 1960. 8vo. First edition. 312 pp. Red hardback in illustrated dust jacket (not price clipped). Light bumping to spine ends and scratch to fore-edge of book. Jacket is lightly rubbed and chipped to extremities but is overall clean. Internally clean. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1960. Item Price
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The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing
by Pierson, Melissa Holbrook
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W W Norton & Co Inc, USA, 2011. Hardcover. 8vo, First Edition. Book Condition: Very Good. Ex library. Dust Jacket: Very Good. In protective cover.. Item Price
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Skipton, North Yorkshire, GBR
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William Heinemann,. Hardback. First edition. 284pp. Novel, published posthumously, with a very attractive dust jacket illustrated by Renato Fratini. Red cloth with gilt titles to the spine has very slight fading to spine ends else very clean and neat. Dust jacket is rubbed and creased to edges with some splitting to folds and a significant… Read more about this item Item Price
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Trustee from the Toolroom
by Nevil Shute
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- 1960
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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Heinemann, 1960. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1960. First Edition. 312 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket with red lettering over red cloth. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Both hinges cracked with netting visible, thus the boards are slack. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Trustee From The Toolroom
by Nevil Shute
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- 1960
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Clevedon, Somerset, GBR
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London: William Heinemann, 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition and printing. In very good plus dark red cloth boards, gilt titles to back strip. The boards are bright, clean, straight and tight. Unmarked end papers. Very lightly foxed and tanned cut edges. The text block is tightly bound, square and not tanned, foxed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cadillac, Michigan, USA
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New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1960. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book cocked. Light soiling. Browning. Lightly bumped corners. Book edges are lightly faded. Green decorated boards with black spine with silver lettering on spine. Name & Date inked on inside front covver.
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