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Beyond the Black Stump
by Shute, Nevil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good in good pictorial dust jacket (some wear to head and tail of spine panel)
- Seller
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, 1956. First edition. [vi], 297 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good in good pictorial dust jacket (some wear to head and tail of spine panel). First edition. [vi], 297 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. A novel of the wilds of Western Australia. Men at Work 20.1.a
Synopsis
Beyond the Black Stump is a novel by British author Nevil Shute. It was first published in the UK by William Heinemann Ltd in 1956. If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. This is the sun-baked setting for Nevil Shute's novel of a romance that is tested by the differences between two young people's home lives. Stanton Laird is sent from his small town in America to work in a remote outpost in Western Australia. While out there he befriends the unconventional Regan family and falls in love with the daughter Mollie. However, when Mollie travels to America to visit him the couple realize that their differences in background make their plans for a future together hard to realize.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 322873
- Title
- Beyond the Black Stump
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- [vi], 297 pp. 1 vols. 12mo
- Book Condition
- Used - Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good in good pictorial dust jacket (some wear to head and tail of spine panel)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Australian | British
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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