Most Secret

by Nevil Shute

$75 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. iv, 275 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth, map endpapers. Spine faded. Very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Smith, pp. 58-65; Men at Work 5.1.a. Item #322856 Novel of wartime intrigue and secret missions to the coast of Brittany, written by Shute in 1942 but not published until 1945 because the Admiralty censors refused to grant permission.

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