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Martyn (Wyndham) Noonday Devils
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London, Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
The name’s Bond…Christopher Bond… this Pre-James Bond is also caught up in the murky world of espionage. An attractive dust-jacket to boot.
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An excellent copy in slightly rubbed but VG+ dust-jacket.
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The novel's title references H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, where Morlocks live underground as the world's workers. In Welsh's book, the Morlocks symbolise covert groups in trade unions aiming to incite revolution, leading to tragic consequences during a major miners' strike. Notably, the author was a miner, trade unionist, and served twenty years as an MP for the Scottish Labour Party.