SLIDE RULE: The Autobiography of an Engineer

Shute, Nevil

ISBN 10: 0261102494 / ISBN 13: 9780261102491

Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, 1954

About this Item

August, 1954. Author's Note dated October, 1953 at Langwarrin, Victoria, Australia. List of Illustrations. 11 chapters. 8 pp. of b/w plates including portrait of author by Clayton Evans. Maroon cloth covered boards have gilt text on spine only. Ep.s have light foxing, mostly at front. Sticker, on front pastedown, " Handbound at the University of Toronto Press ". An unusual copy of this somewhat rare title. Bookseller's Inventory # 231466.

Seller Inventory # 001466

Bibliographic Details

• Title: SLIDE RULE: The Autobiography of an Engineer
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1954
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0261102494
• ISBN 13: 9780261102491
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Michael Hague
• Edition: No Edition Stated, Presumed 1st
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military/war
  • Non-fiction
  • Autobiography

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Synopsis

Film tie-in edition of the best-selling classic work of fantasy of Bilbo Baggins’ adventures in Middle-earth, featuring the complete story told in both films, with a striking cover image from Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End.

But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey ‘there and back again’. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...

The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.

Review

Scenes from The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies

Luke Evans as Bard and Orlando Bloom as Legolas in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, in theatres December 17, 2014. (cr. Mark Pokorny)

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Ian McKellan as Gandalf and Luke Evans as Bard in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. (cr. Mark Pokorny)

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Smaug the Dragon attacks Lake Town in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)

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  A scene from The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)

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Luke Evans as Bard in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)

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Martin Freeman as Bilbo in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)

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