Blue cloth binding with navy title plate and gilt title on the spine.

We provide an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available.

•     Note: This book carries a £5.00 discount to those that subscribe to the F.B.A. mailing list

Please view our photographs. The book details you provided describe a vintage book club edition of Night Without End, an Arctic survival thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean.

About the Edition

• Publisher: The Companion Book Club (often operating simply as The Book Club) was a popular post-war British book club in London that reprinted successful recent fiction and non-fiction titles in affordable, uniform hardback editions for its members shortly after their initial retail publication.

• Publication / Printing Year: While Collins first published the novel around 1959/1960, book club reprint editions typically followed closely thereafter (with Companion Book Club editions for MacLean’s works around this era commonly dated 1959–1961).

• Value: Because book club editions were printed in large quantities without original retail dust jackets of the true first editions, vintage copies generally hold modest collectible value, typically trading between £10 and £15 depending on condition.

Book Overview

• Plot: Set 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle on the Greenland ice-cap, a small scientific research team rescues the freezing survivors of a passenger airliner crash.

• The Mystery: The rescue turns perilous when the station doctor discovers that the plane crash was no accident and the pilot was murdered before impact, meaning a ruthless killer is hidden among the survivors