minshall merlin (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 319 pages, b/w plates, foreword by Len Deighton. Original dust jacket very good, with a little sunning to the spine (see accompanying image/s), no tears, no chips, neatly price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, minimal wear. A very good to fine first edition copy. Book.

paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. Stains to cover, page edges, and/or pages inside. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original cream cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with black and white photographs and map endpapers of the 'Voyage of Sperwer across Europe'. A near fine copy, the binding tight and square, with some bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The contents are clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps, with some light spotting to the top of the closed text block and a few faint marks to the to the fore-edge. Complete with the lightly creased and rubbed dustwrapper, that remains without fading, loss or tears. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the title page "To Danny / cordial greetings / from / Merlin Minshall / 007 / Jan 28 1977". Scarce thus. An autobiographical account of the authors experiences as a spy in WWI and later being recruited by Ian Fleming to serve as part of British Naval Intelligence during WWII. Linked as a possible inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond, of which Minshall initially denied, he later used this as promotion for his autobiography. Also documents the author's adventures, including winning the Foreign Challenge Trophy of the world's longest car race and being the first to ride a motorcycle across the Sahara. Rare signed. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s).