By Nevil Shute, pen name of Nevil Shute Norway.

New York: Ballantine Books, (1972).

First paperback edition, SECOND printing.

"Second printing December 1972" statement to the copyright page.

This second printing sports new cover art with Shute's portrait art to its front.

The author of ON THE BEACH, and A TOWN LIKE ALICE was also a pilot and significantly important aeronautical engineer, developing airships, the Airspeed Limited Company, the Airspeed Oxford used in WWII, and the Rocketspeer, an anti-submarine missile.

A collectible UNREAD vintage paperback with snazzy cover art.

Vertical binding glue wrinkle to the spine, minute rubs to the extreme corner tips, else very nearly fine, firm, square, very tight and unread in glossy stiff-card wraps, with second printing wraparound cover art depicting a pipe-holding portrait of the author in the foreground and a dirigible colliding with a tower above a grassy landscape, all page edges amber; printed code 029917 and .95c price still intact to the front cover.

Mass-market paperback.

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