The Chequer Board
Melbourne: William Heinemann, (1947).
Price: $225.00
Hardcover. First Australian edition. A couple of tiny stains on the front board, else near fine in price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with some rubbing and small nicks and tears. The English edition precedes, but the Australian is much less common.
Item #312874
Nevil Shute
birth name: Nevil Shute Norway
born: 1/17/1899
died: 1/12/1960
nationality: Great Britain
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