Search Results: requiem for a wren by shute nevil 1899 1960

London : Heinemann, 1955-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Order today-sent today with tracking number, M-F*. Still attractive but showing some wear: some abrasion to flats and edges, bumped corners with a bit of lifting. Text is clean and solid. We protect your purchase with damage-resistant double-layer bubble-wrap packaging where possible. Your purchase helps fund small charities in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. *Our delivery standard: order received by 2PM Eastern US time goes out by 4:30 PM M-F.

London: William Heinemann, Pan Books, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Wrappers dust-toned. Minor browning to the pages. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 252 pages. Subjects: Bereavement Psychological aspects; Fiction. World War, 1939-1945; Fiction. Australian fiction. Authors, Australian. Modern fiction in English. Genre: Fiction. Love stories,

London : Heinemann, 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 249 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 ; Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 ; history. World War, 1939-1945 ; description.

London: William Heinemann, 1967. [Romantic adventure novel] UNIFORM EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284. Publisher's blue cloth with red title panel to spine, top edge red, pictorial dust-jacket designed by W. Francis Phillipps. Contents clean and fresh, neat gift note to f.e.p., bright jacket lightly worn/frayed at crown. Near fine. Wartime naval adventure from a master storyteller, issued here as part of Heinemann's Uniform edition of the author's classic works, with different cover designs to the originals.

London: William Heinemann, 1955. [Romantic adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Val Biro with printed price of 12s 6d net. Contents clean, a few spots to edges, jacket with chips/loss at crown. Very good. Wartime naval adventure from a master storyteller.

London: William Heinemann, 1955. [Romantic adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Val Biro with printed price of 12s 6d net. Minor dustiness to edges, jacket with a few small chips, slightly toned to spine and rubbed to joints. Wartime naval adventure from a master storyteller.

London: William Heinemann, 1955. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 284; [2]. Newly rebound in blue half calf with marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Attached to the endpapers is the original publisher's red cloth spine lettered in gilt. Some very light spotting to edges of text-block. Presented in an attractive new binding. 'Requiem for a Wren', set in the years just after World War II, is often regarded as one of Shute's most poignant novels. Fighter pilot Alan Duncan reluctantly returns home to his parent's remote sheep station in Australia after a wartime injury. However, his return home is tainted by the suicide of his parent's parlour maid. The parlour maid is not the woman she pretended to be, however, and Alan is determined to unearth who she truly is.

London: William Heinemann, 1955. [Romantic adventure novel] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284. Elegantly hand-bound in half blue calf over matching buckram sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, cream endpapers, neat bookseller ticket. A lovely fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Wartime naval adventure from a master storyteller.