Round the Bend

First edition, fifth printing.  362pp.  Lovely scarlet cloth-covered boards with bright gilt lettering to spine.  8vo.  Cloth just a tad rubbed on corners and spine ends.  A little dustiness to upper text block edge.  Some mild strip toning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original dust wrapper, a little rubbed at edges with minor chipping on corners and spine ends, slight toning on rear panel.  Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.

Nevil Shute was the pen name of Nevil Shute Norway (1899-1960), an aeronautical engineer and novelist. Known for his highly readable style and clearly delineated plots.  Many of his novels centred on pre-war flying adventures and second world war tales, while several of his later stories , following his own relocation to Melbourne, were set in Australia, notably A Town Like Alice.