Town Alice by Shute Nevil, First Edition (26 results)

Condition: As New. First edition. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. 402 pp , pale blue cloth wit blind stamped floral design to front, gilt title to spine, decorative endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon marker. Book clean and sound, looks unread, slight shelf wear to dust wrapper.

Paperback. first edition. 96 very good + paperback,

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Illustrated card cover with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the backstrip. The classic tale of an Australian POW and an English internee in World War II. Pan Books X96. Creasing to the book corners with reading creases to the backstrip. Chipping to the backstrip corners with rubbing of the book panels and browning of the textblock edges and pages. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 314, [5 Â which are further titles from publishing house]pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Australia; Inventory No: 0117435.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Plant, Geoffrey (illustrator). First Edition Thus; First Printing. Mssing DJ if issued, slight bump to top of spine, some foxing to edges of reading block. ; Red faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine and decorations to front and spine, gilt decorated red endpapers, yellow braided place ribbon. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Undated but assumed c.1970.; Nevil Shute Complete Works; B&W Illustrations; 332 pages; Possibly the best of Shute's novels, set in wartime Malaya and post war Australia. A gallant story of struggle and love. With a general introduction by William Buchan. New illustrations by Geoffrey Plant.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good (AVERAGE). No Jacket. Not Illustrated (illustrator). 3rd Printing. "Acknowledged as one of the great novels of our time - A magnificent story of courage and endurance enterprise and love." This is Pan Book No:- X96. Browned pages. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK ONLY). Please e-mail for further details Size: Mass Market Paperback. Not Inscribed or Signed. PAN BOOKS.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Two volumes from the Pan series of Books. Green Light: 1966 (first Pan edition), 304pp. Gentle wear to card covers, spine crease. mild tanning. Previous owner's name inside rear cover. Clean and tidy. No M126 in the Pan series. A Town Like Alice: 1965 (5th Pan printing), 314pp plus adverts at rear. Gentle wear to card covers, minor scuff at base of spine. A few minor marks and light page toning. No X96 in the Pan series. A nice pair of vintage paperbacks. A Town Like Alice is widely acknowledged as one of the great novels of the 20th century and as Nevil Shute's greatest novel. Green Light is a heart-warming novel set in the American mid-west. 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 333 pages (complete). First edition of Shute's famous, perhaps most famous, novel. An aged copy. The covers are marked, worn, stained. They are secure and resolute. Within, the pages are tanned and occasionally marked. However, they are also benign, placid, comfortable and certain. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Age toning to endpapers. Moderate age and reading wear to book. 334 pages. No internal inscriptions, torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Australia; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57655.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. A worn but complete and intact ex-library copy.

Audio Pack. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. Robin Bailey, Narrator (illustrator). First Edition. Genuine Chivers audiobook, unabridged 10hrs 18mins in 8 tape cassettes as shown in blister clamshell case. Shiny tight carefully privately owned copy. Size: 8vo.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HBNODJ,1975, stated 1st edition, Blue decorated Cloth, Nice & Clean & Tight,VG+/NF-, AS-IS, NODJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. HARDBACK - A near fine book, bound in the publisher's dark red cloth boards with bright gilt lettering to the spine. There is a minor mark to the top centre of the rear panel. Internally, there is the usual toning to the page block, also to the inner text due to the paper stock used in the books production. Free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. There is an overseas edition stamp to the bottom corner of the rear pastedown. The dust wrapper is also in near fine condition with a closed tear to the top corner of the front panel, next to the spine with very shallow chipping to the base of the spine and to the corners of the front and rear flap folds. There is the odd very small closed tear to the extremities. There is a partial overseas edition stamp present to the base of the rear panel. The dust wrapper is very clean indeed with the publisher's printed price of 10s.6d net present to the base of the front flap. This title may have been destined for the Commonwealth market, but was not price clipped and, or repriced for the Country in question. A very nice example of a title that is notoriously difficult to acquire in collectable condition due to the fragility of the paper stock used in the production of the dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (First Edition) Brown Hardback: Very Good Condition. No Jacket. Pages Clean And Unmarked. Shows Signs Of Aging Such As Tanning And Light Foxing To Leaf-Edges. Binding Tight And Secure. Clean Boards With A Protective Removable Cover. Photograph Is Added By Selling Site And Not Ours, Therefore May Not Reflect This Edition Or Condition.

1st edition / 1st printing hardback in original cloth Very Good octavo 332pp., No dust jacket o/w a very good copy in dulled red boards.

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. UK PROOF of Shute's highly successful novel. Very scarce. Fragile publication in paper covers, with Heinemann logo to spine. Unfortunately missing front cover. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

[Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 332; [2]. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt to spine, top edge red, pictorial dust-jacket with price 10/6 to flap. Contents clean, uniform toning to edges, ink ownership and address label to endpaper. Jacket is defective, with significant chips and large loss to rear panel. The author's defining novel, 'A Town Like Alice' (aka The Legacy) tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a wartime Japanese 'death march', and an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her - even at the cost of his life. Basis for the 1956 J. Arthur Rank film directed by Jack Lee, starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition.Unclipped d/w has piece missing top left corner of front and top of spine,small piece missing bottom edge of soiled back and bottom corner of front,edges rubbed.Book red boards,reading wear,gilt lettering to spine,title blindstamped on front and raised intertwined letters 'NS' below,top pages dyed red,other edges browned,contents clean,

Cloth. Condition: Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Heavy loss to DJ which is also foxed with tape repairs. Spine cloth sunned where DJ loss has occured, also painted top edge sunned. Book plates to both pastedowns, some light foxing, front gutter a little strained, pp good. Size: 12mo 0.0.

First edition, later issue dust jacket indicating Book Society Choice on front flap. [vi], 332, [1] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Shute's most celebrated novel of the revival of an Australian town. Men at Work 14.1.a Red cloth, spine titled in gilt upper cover titled in blind. Very good in good pictorial dust jacket (text block toned, losses to head of spine panel and top of back panel, paper repairs on verso) [vi], 332, [1] pp. 1 vols. 12mo First edition, later issue dust jacket indicating Book Society Choice on front flap.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. None (illustrator). First edition. A handsome set of first edition war and romance novels by aeronautical engineer and author, Nevil Shute. First editions.A handsome set of Nevil Shute books, bound in the publisher's original red cloth.'Requiem for a Wren' has the original unclipped dust wrapper, but is missing spine, so front and rear panels are therefore separated.Nevil Shute Norway was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer, who used 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name in order to protect his engineering career and prevent inferences or adverse publicity in connection with his works. Aviation and engineering provide the backdrop for many of Shute's novels.Shute's heroes tended to be like himself: middle-class solicitors, doctors, accountants, bank managers, and engineersgenerally university graduates.Includes his romance novel 'A Town Like Alice' (1950) centring around a young Englishwoman who becomes interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya.Other works contained in this set include the following:'Most Secret' (1945)'The Chequer Board' (1947)'No Highway' (1948)'Round the Bend' (1951)'The Far Country' (1952)'In the Wet' (1953)'Requiem for a Wren' (1955)'Beyond the Black Stump' (1956) Bound in the publisher's original red cloth. 'Requiem for a Wren' has the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. With fading to the spines of 'Most Secret', 'Chequer Board' and 'A Town Like Alice'. With rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Damp marks to the boards of 'Most Secret' and 'Town Like Alice'. Dust wrapper to 'Requiem' is missing the spine, with front and rear panels present but separated from one another. With edge wear to both panels and a couple chips to the front. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscriptions to front free endpapers of 'Beyond the Black Stump', 'In the Wet', 'No Highway'. Chips to the corners and scattered spots to the last few leaves of 'No Highway'. Very Good. book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very rare. Uncorrected proof edition. Softcover published 1950. "To be sold on the continent of Europe only". The book published in American under the name of LEGACY. Spine little town. The binding little skewed. The interior and text pages are very attractive, free from reading marks and no foxing spots. Edges little Darkened. 333 pages.

[Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 332; [2]. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt to spine, top edge red, pictorial dust-jacket with price 10/6 to flap. No inscriptions. Contents clean, usual toning to leaves, crisp bright wrapper with a few minor nicks and rubs. Near fine overall. The author's defining novel, 'A Town Like Alice' (aka The Legacy) follows its heroine, a young woman who miraculously survived a wartime Japanese 'death march' in the Malayan jungle, to the rugged Australian bush. Basis for the 1956 J. Arthur Rank film directed by Jack Lee, starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First American Edition. Original cloth, fine, no writing, no bookplates, in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket, with some minimal chipping to top of spine. Published in London 11 years earlies in 1939 as A TOWN LIKE ALICE, this is the scarce first edition published in the U.S. Exceeding difficult to find in any condition, this one is exceptional and missing from most Shute collection. Mylar cover for protection, in custom-made slipcase.