Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute, 1960, 1st edition, Vintage Hardback Novel

Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute, 1960, 1st edition, published by William Heinemann Ltd. London. Hardback, 312 pages

This vintage first edition novel is in fairly good condition - the original dust-jacket has a small piece missing from the top of the spine. There is some rubbing, and the back has some foxing. There are some tiny creases and tears along the edges. and a few pinprick holes on the spine and back flap.
Inside there is foxing on the very edges of the pages and on the flysheets and title pages.
Otherwise there is no writing, tearing, creasing or dog-earing.

20.5cm x 13.5cm x 3cm approx.

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Blurb reads:
Keith Stewart's life resembled that of thousand of other Englishmen. He lived in Ealing, he was happily married, he worked hard for a small salary, he had a mortgage to pay off, and he was a contented man. In his house he had fixed up a model engineering workshop, and through his contributions to the Minitature Mechanic he was known, as his daily post proved, to enthusiasts all over the world.
One day the tramlines of Keith Stewart's life were torn up. He woke up to find that he had become the trustee of his ten-year-old niece and that he was committed to a wild quest for a cache which his own ingenuity had helped to hide. He began in deep waters - on a 2000 mile voyage across the Pacific in a small yacht with one companion, and a very strange one at that; and he ended in high altitudes - among the top echelons of American big business. Keith Stewart's happiest discovery, apart from what he set out to find, was that he had more friends in the world than he knew about.
Nevil Shute's new book is on a theme dear to his heart: the ordeal of an ordinary man plunged into extraordinary circumstances and emerging with his personal values unshaken. Trustee from the Toolroom is a splendid story, whose sense of adventure and the power of friendship make it the happiest, as well as the last, of Nevil Shute's novels
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