A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute, 1950
SHUTE, Nevil (1899-1960). A Town Like Alice. London: William Heinemann, 1950.

First edition, a presentation copy, of Shute's 1950 novel set in Australia. It is inscribed: "Elisabeth Pring / from / Nevil Schute Norway / June 1950."

Octavo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket (minor rubbing and edgewear, short closed tear to rear panel); custom box.