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A Town Like Alice
by Shute, Nevil
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Red cloth, spine titled in gilt upper cover titled in blind. Very good in good pictorial dust jacket (text block toned, losses t
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]: Heinemann, 1950. First edition, later issue dust jacket indicating Book Society Choice on front flap. [vi], 332, [1] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt upper cover titled in blind. Very good in good pictorial dust jacket (text block toned, losses to head of spine panel and top of back panel, paper repairs on verso). First edition, later issue dust jacket indicating Book Society Choice on front flap. [vi], 332, [1] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Shute's most celebrated novel of the revival of an Australian town. Men at Work 14.1.a
Synopsis
A Town Like Alice is a novel by the Australian author Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Jean Paget; as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and then her return to Malaya after the war where she discovers something that leads her on the search for romance and to a small outback community in Australia where she sets out to turn it into 'a town like Alice'. It was first published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.
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On Feb 18 2012, Jonanhereandnowyahoocom said:
Engaging read, hard to put down.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 322685
- Title
- A Town Like Alice
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- [vi], 332, [1] pp. 1 vols. 12mo
- Book Condition
- Used - Red cloth, spine titled in gilt upper cover titled in blind. Very good in good pictorial dust jacket (text block toned, losses t
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, later issue dust jacket indicating Book Society C
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne London Toronto [Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey]
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Science Fiction / Fantasy | Australian | British
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
James Cummins Bookseller
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