Nevil Shute Complete Works 14 Volumes Imitation Leather – January 1, 1968

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Nevil Shute Complete Works 14 Volumes
Imitation Leather – January 1, 1968
by
Nevil Shute
(Author)
Includes all 14 Books. Books are in Very good condition, no damage. Bindings are tight. No marks, tears, stains or signs of wear inside books. Slight staining noted to the book block - front of pages - I'm not sure if its supposed to be like that. (Please see pictures). No other marks, stains or damage noted.
First Edition Books ; The text is illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Patricia Ludlow. Yellow faux silk place marker intact all books;. Red imitation leather binding with gilt  decoration to the front panel and back strip. The gold lettering is faded on some books. Very clean/odor free. Please see all pictures. Rare Collectible Vintage Books.
"He wrote with a power that enthralled millions. Nevil Shute became, in his time, the most popular novelist in the world. He was born to tell stories – of life in the Australian outback and the American West, in Burma and Malaya and the town
s and villages of England – stories of the courage and decency of ordinary people, of the values of the individual in an ailing world, of the power of friendship and the force of love, of drama, innocence and disaster."
Nevil Shute (1899–1960) British novelist. Aviation and engineering provide the backdrop for many of his novels. He identified how engineering, science and design could improve human life. Many of his books were filmed. 14 TITLES: Landfall ( A young RAF pilot and a British barmaid fall in love. He is thought to have sunk a British submarine in error); An Old Captivity (a pilot hired to take aerial photographs of a site in Greenland suffers a drug-induced flashback to Viking times); A Town Like Alice (The hero and heroine meet while both are prisoners of the Japanese in Malaya. After the war they reunite in a small Australian town that would have no future if not for her plans); Pied Piper (An old man rescues 7 children from France during the Nazi invasion); On The Beach (set in Melbourne, whose population is awaiting death from the effects of an atomic war); The Far Country (A young woman travels to Australia. A condemnation of British socialism and the national health service); Trustee From the Toolroom (about the recovery of a lost legacy of diamonds from a wrecked sailboat); Stephen Morris (a young pilot takes on a daring and dangerous mission); What Happened to the Corbetts (Foretells the German bombing of Southampton early in WWII); Ruined City (A rich banker revives a town economically thru questionable financial dealings); The Chequer Board (A dying man looks up 3 wartime comrades: contains an interesting discussion of racism in the US and in the US Army stationed in Britain); Beyond the Black Stump ( The ethical standards of an unconventional family living in a remote part of Australia are compared with those of a conventional family living in Oregon); Most Secret (Unconventional attacks on German forces during WWII, using a French fishing boat); In the Wet (An Anglican priest tells the story of an Australian aviator which embraces a drug-induced flash forward to Britain in the 1980s)