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Author:	Nevil Shute
Title:	What Happened To The Corbetts
Publisher:	William Heinemann
Country:	UK
Date:	Feb 1939
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction
Total Editions:	4
First Published:	1939
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Nevil Shute - What Happened To The Corbetts - William Heinemann - Hardcover - UK (1939)

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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.



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.



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

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