The Sixth Column. A Singular Tale of Our Times

by Peter Fleming

£65 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951. James Bond Source Book FIRST EDITION. Octavo 21 x 14cm , pp.224. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket. An espionage novel which greatly influenced Casino Royale, and in which Peter wrote of Britain's need for a buccaneering hero. With printed dedication; To My Brother Ian - the first book to be dedicated to Ian Fleming. A fine copy in near fine, price clipped jacket. After the war Peter Fleming

• Binding: Hardcover

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