'Mister Big' in Best Secret Service Stories

by John Welcome, John Buchan Ian Fleming, etc., Conan

£175 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Faber and Faber, 1960. Anthology of spy stories FIRST EDITION. Octavo 21 x 14cm , pp.256. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands. Contents clean, edges a little dusty/toned. Exterior as new. Near fine, in an attractive recent leather binding. Contains an excerpt from Ian Fleming's James Bond novel 'Live and Let Die'. Fleming is also discussed at length

• Binding: Leather

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