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Author:	Nevil Shute
Title:	What Happened To The Corbetts
Publisher:	William Heinemann
Country:	UK
Date:	Apr 1939
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction
Total Editions:	4
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limited edition of 1,000 copies distributed free of charge to a.r.p. wardens

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ppint. 21st Aug 2024		william heinemann limited edition h/cvr° whose distribution may have preceded the william heinemann first edition ° - it was almost certainly a part of the first edition; but n.b. i have not compared the two cover (d-j) art none: typographical black on white (unprinted) field with red border decorated with 22 small black five-pointed stars cover (d-j) price none charged 268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards



ppint. 21st Aug 2024		the 1952 (& other 1950s (?)) printing bears a monochrome d-j printed mainly in grey (titles in white, i.e. left unprinted), d-j art is a picture of an aircraft carrier in heavy seas; uniform series design: series name, "the novels of", printed in black above author's name, then horizontal white line, then d-j art, then title. bound with endpapers between light blue cloth-covered boards. the 1960 through 1968 (at least) heinemann printings bear a full colour d-j, art by w. francis phillipps - william francis phillipps, probably most often credited as w. f. phillipps. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Aug 2024		general mmpb first printing (check), probably first canadian p/b edition / first canadian edition cover art unsigned, uncredited sfaik of a ditched bristol beaufort, crew being rescued by the crew of a small yacht (? - one mast, two sails, triangular forward sail, main sail on a boom and gaff(?) extending the mast diagonally upward; tiller manned, no rudder visible at raked stern) cover price $4.95 224pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Aug 2024		pan books first printing, first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited, in a broad band across lower third of front cover, top of woman's head/hair breaks above top line of this band cover price 3/6 printed in black on the top right hand corner of the cover art 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising at least some of the first, and almost certainly of the second and third printings finished with no 3/6 uk price on front cover, possibly c. 4/- australian price in black on back cover though this price may've been varied on later copies of the first (or second) printings, and was 6/- on the third printing near-identical second printing (1966) (also seen reported as 1965) retains cat# X380 cover art cover price 3/6 near-identical third printing (1967) retains cat# X380 cover art cover price 3/6 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Aug 2024		the first edition h/cvr's publication date may've been preceded by the official distribution to air raid precautions officers to familiarise them with the possible and probable effects of major aerial bombing, including public health risks, such as subsequent explosions due to broken (town gas) gas mains and domestic pipes, &c., and to diseases resulting from contaminated water supplies. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Aug 2024		william heinemann h/cvr first printing , first edition cover (d-j) art none: typographical black on white (unprinted) field with red border decorated with 22 small black five-pointed stars cover (d-j) price 4/6 (on d-j spine, on third impression of first edition, d-j else as that of the copies for the a.r.p. (i've not compared the d-j flaps) 268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards indicia publishing history of near-identical second printing states on two lines: first published, february 1939 reprinted, february 1939 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 23rd May 2019		merkin aka ''ordeal'' (1939), q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Nevil Shute - What Happened To The Corbetts - Pan - Paperback - UK (1965)

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Nevil Shute - What Happened To The Corbetts - William Heinemann - Hardcover - UK (1939)

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Nevil Shute - What Happened To The Corbetts - General Paperbacks - Paperback - Canada - 0773671692 (1988)