The Chequer Board

New York: Morrow, 1947.

Price: $18.00

Hardcover. Book club. Very good in good dustwrapper. Hardcover, book club edition. Book has light wear of spine ends and cover corners, brown shadowing endpapers. Clean text. Dustwrapper has 4" tear front panel, minor wear and tear of spine ends and panel edges, fading panels. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Item #233917

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Nevil Shute
birth name: Nevil Shute Norway
born: 1/17/1899
died: 1/12/1960
nationality: Great Britain

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Biography

English-born Australian novelist. His most famous work, On the Beach (1957; film, 1959), reflected his pessimism regarding the atomic age. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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