Printed on regular paper stock with usual browning, original pictorial wrappers by ‘Peff’, spine slightly toned but overall very good. 8vo.
Gilbert A6a 18.1
£35
The first paperback edition of the fifth James Bond novel.
Pan Books Ltd, 1960.
Out of stock
Printed on regular paper stock with usual browning, original pictorial wrappers by ‘Peff’, spine slightly toned but overall very good. 8vo.
Gilbert A6a 18.1
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition
London, Putnam, 1933.
Signed and inscribed by the author one month after publication (March 1933). A Hubin-listed secret service adventure set in London and India.
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition.
London. Heinemann, 1939
The basis for the 1945 film Confidential Agent, starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou and Peter Lorre. In the book, the nationality of the agent is not stated; in the film, he is Spanish.
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition. Foreign Legion short stories.
London, John Murray, 1933
A fine first English edition of this compilation of Foreign Legion stories by the author of Beau Geste (1924), in the fabulous Art Deco design correctly priced at 7/6 on front flap. 'Very many of these men are examples of the "flawed blades" that have snapped, leaving little but the sheath that once contained the sword - spirits that have broken, leaving only a weary body.' (dust-jacket).