DELICATE MISSION: Autobiography of a secret agent (First edition - first printing - scarce)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Skilton & Shaw, 52 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, 1979

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First printing of the true first edition. ***Very good in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. Boards clean and unmarked. Head of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. All edges of text block lightly foxed. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. No foxing. No creasing. No tears. No marks. However, please note that there is a 'Lincolnshire Library Service' stamp and Dewey reference number on the page opposite the Contents page. There are no other library marks, so it is likely that the book was held in the reference library. Spine tight. ***In a very good dustwrapper with photographs of the author front and back - not price-clipped, showing the original publishers price of £5.95 net. Extremities of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. No loss. No tears. No significant creasing. The dustwrapper would be described as near fine except for the fact that there are two narrow strips of clear archival tape affixed to the top and tail of the spine - most likely done by the library to prevent tearing to the top and tail of the spine of the dustwrapper. These could probably be carefully removed by a book archivist. No fading to the sun-sensitive orange titles on the spine of the dustwrapper. ***220 mm x 145 mm. 272 pages. ***'Conrad Fulke Thomond O'Brien-ffrench, 2nd Marquis de Castelthomond (19 Nov 1893 - 23 Oct 1986 was a distinguished British Secret Intelligence Officer, Captain in the Tipperary Rangers of the Royal Irish Regiment and 16th The Queen's Lancers in World War I, and Mountie for the Royal North-West Mounted Police. He was also an accomplished artist, linguist, mountaineer, skier, and author.' (Wiki) ***'Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, Marquis de Castel-Thomond, was born in London in 1893. At the age of 17 he sailed for Canada and became a Mountie, but in 1912 returned home to be with his dying mother. On the outbreak of war he was sent to France with the Royal Irish Regiment where severely wounded he was captured at the Battle of Mons. As a prisoner-of-war in Germany he began to obtain valuable classified information from other prisoners recently arrived at the camp, and this he relayed to London by the simple device of invisible ink. As a result after the war Stewart Menzies (head of M.I.1.6 - later to become M.I.6 - the British Military Intelligence branch, and the model for Ian Fleming's "M") offered him a job as assistant Military Attaché to the British Legation at Stockholm. Thus began an association which was to continue up to the beginning of the Second World War. His life in the 'thirties, when under the guise of playboy and sportsman he kept watch on Hitler's Germany, is frequently stranger than fiction. But Conrad O'Brien-ffrench's day to day battle of wits with the Nazis, which is said to have inspired his friend Ian Fleming with the idea for James Bond, is just a single period in an astonishing life that spans the whole of the present century. Conrad O'Brien-ffrench lives today in a chalet in the Rockies, where at 85 he lectures on philosophy and art, and teaches painting.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A first printing of the true first edition of this very elusive work by the secret intelligence officer, artist, linguist, mountaineer, skier, and author Conrad O'Brien-ffrench. The book is scarce. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.***.

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Titre
DELICATE MISSION: Autobiography of a secret agent (First edition - first printing - scarce)
Auteur
Conrad O'Brien-ffrench
Éditeur
Skilton & Shaw, 52 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
Année de publication
1979
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Very Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
Édition
First Edition
Impression
First Printing
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