London, Heinemann, 1957
First edition of Shute's chilling dystopian novel, the basis for the 1959 film starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins.
First edition, first impression; 8vo; initials in green ink to front free endpaper, light offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket by John Rowland, spine and extremities slightly tanned, mild rubbing to extremities, else very good.
First edition, first impression; 8vo; initials in green ink to front free endpaper, light offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket by John Rowland, spine and extremities slightly tanned, mild rubbing to extremities, else very good.
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