Description: British aeronautical engineer Nevil Shute moonlighted as a novelist. He is most famous for the apocalyptic On the Beach, but he had a prolific career from the 1920s through the late 1950s. This novel, No Highway, was published in 1948. In 1951 it was filmed as No Highway in the Sky as a star vehicle for James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. The novel tells the story of an eccentric aeronautical engineer who is so convinced that a new commercial airliner design is flawed and will cause a crash sabotages one of the planes. Central plot elements include a nerve-wracking trans-Atlantic flight on the potentially doomed plane and the engineer's struggle to convince corporate and government superiors of his theory. This copy is in good used condition. The painted cover is great - it really pops. The exterior features moderate shelf wear including rubbing at the edges, loss of paint, light small creases, and blunted corners. There is a small stain on the back cover. The spine is tight and intact with no creasing or breaking of the glue. The interior is clean and unmarked with page tanning throughout, consistent with an inexpensive pocket edition. See photos for more details of condition. This copy was published sometime between 1960 (when Trustee from the Tool Room, listed among the "other books by Nevil Shute", was published, and 1963 (when zip codes were introduced, as the publisher's address is listed without a zip code.) All books are individually evaluated and photos are of the actual book.
Price: 8.5 USD
Location: Urbandale, Iowa
End Time: 2023-12-18T18:10:55.000Z
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Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Language: English
Special Attributes: Vintage Paperback
Author: Nevil Shute
Publisher: Ballantine
Topic: Suspense, aviation
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
