Hardback. First edition. 312pp. Dust jacket illustrated by John Rowland. The famous post-apocalyptic novel by Nevil Shute as a group of people in Australia await the arrival of a nuclear cloud during a nuclear war. It has been filmed several times most famously in 1959 starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins. Red cloth with gilt titles to the spine is very clean and neat. Complete dust jacket is tanned to the spine and lightly tanned to the edges of the front and rear. Dust jacket is also lightly rubbed with some faint marks to paler areas on the back, and with a tiny nick to the head of the front fore-edge fold. Not price clipped.