On the Beach, Nevil Shute
First American edition, first printing of Shute's classic post-apocalyptic novel and basis for the acclaimed 1959 film starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1957. Publisher's grey cloth, spine lettered in white; pp. 320. A very good copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding sturdy with a slight lean. Minimal shelfwear to boards, sunning to edges, a few minor stains to rear board. Owner's signature to front pastedown, else internally clean. Jacket shows some general shelfwear and closed tears, light dampstain to the top of the rear panel. Protected in archival mylar.