On the Beach

New York: Morrow, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($3.95), rubbed and with shallow tips and short tears, toned at the back panel. Grey cloth with white ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. Shute's novel chronicling the aftermath of a nuclear war, or, as the jacket puts it, "a stirring, provocative story of nine climactic months in the lives of people who can forsee their own end." Adapted into the 1959 Stanley Kramer film starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins.