About this title: This title includes the novel "Pilotage". Stephen Morris has just called off his engagement to the girl of his dreams because he is a penniless graduate with no prospects. He finds a job working as an aircraft mechanic, hoping to make his fortune. In "Pilotage", Stephen's navigator Peter Dennison is struggling with the same problem. These two early novels draw on Nevil Shute's own experiences as a young engineer.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Lancer Books
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good. 73-435. Light wear; pages tanned; slight bow; sound book. "great novel of the early days of aviation..." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Vintage Paperbacks Inventory No: 077501. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Morrow, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Hardcover former library book in good condition, clear plastic protective cover, good dust jacket. 303 p. 21 cm. read more
Edition: 1st published 1961.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Pan Books, London
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780330239851ISBN:0330239856
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine crease, front corner creases, lower spine end taped neatly. back cover creasing. 238p.; Wraparound pictorial cover painting of early aviators on ground, plane upside down (not credited). Two linked novels of the pioneer days of flying illustrating Shute's writing skill: tenderness, courage, a keen perception of the human heart, acute knowledge of flying and sailing. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: NY: William Morrow & Co
Date Published: 1961
Description: 1st edition. Fine/VG DJ. The front endpaper has a price in ink. The DJ is worn at the top and bottom of the spine and the corners are slightly worn. read more
Description: Morrow, c1961, marbled hardcover with blue cloth spine, pages; Bright, a solid copy, previous owner's name, else VERY GOOD, in a beautiful dustjacket (a color reprint of a bright GOOD+ original), in a new clear mylar DJ cover. A nice copy you will be happy to own! read more
Edition: 1st Thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Lancer, New York
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good. To view other titles by this author enter the keywords; XDCX, XJGX, Shute or War. The book is in good condition with minor wear o/w tight and clean. read more
Edition: First US Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 303 pages; DJ a little scuffed, chipping head & tail of spine, short tears. Price clipped, bookplate on FFEP. Dust jacket in Mylar A tight solid book. 'Stephen Morris', the book, is actually 2 novellas (Stephen Morris and Pilotage) which are connected by theme, a young aviator named Stephen Morris. They have been edited to form a single book. They were actually written first but the manuscript was not discovered til after Shute's death in 1960. Blue cloth ... read more
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