“FREEDOM IS THE FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENT OF MAN’S MIND” Octavo, original green cloth and black cloth, original grey cardboard slipcase with green paper label. First edition, second printing, one of 300 unnumbered copies issued to meet [...]
First American Printing of Shute's film play of the Viking portions of his earlier novel, An Old Captivity (1940). In Vinland the Good, Major Callender returns to his pre-war teaching job for only a single day teaching history when he tells hi [...]
First Printing of On the Beach, one from Shute's early "Australian" group of stories from the 1950's, the most well known of which to Americans are On the Beach and A Town Like Alice. Book is very near fine, none of the usual foxing, with a t [...]
1st Edition. SIGNED by Shute, without inscription, on the title page, First Printing of The Rainbow and the Rose, one of the "Australian" group of stories from the 1950's, the most well known of which to Americans are On the Beach and A Town L [...]