SHUTE, NEVIL. On the Beach. 8vo, publisher's red cloth, spine gilt lettered, boards clean and bright but for a few faint spots to front cover; dust jacket, mild shelfwear, largely to rear panel, price clipped; top- and fore-edges and first blank with usual foxing. first english edition. About fine in like dust jacket. Basis for the 1959 Stanley Kramer film of the same name. Melbourne, London and Toronto: Heinemann, (1957)