official secret remarkable story escape de hutton clayton (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Dust jacket price clipped with light edgewear and tears to front board. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hutton was the brain behind many escape aids issued to servicemen, - especially those in the RAF. From silk maps to customisable uniforms, dart-shooting fountain pens to button compasses, flying-boots with multiple enclosures and water-bottles containing comprehensive escape kits. On first publication the author was charged with breach of the Official Secrets Act, only to find, on his appearance at Bow Street, that the authorities had mysteriously withdrawn their case. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.529.

[Espionage] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.196. Illustrated with full page monochrome plates. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-wrapper priced 18s. Contents clean, jacket bright and fresh. A particularly crisp, fine copy. One of the most remarkable figures of the secret background of the war, Major Christopher William Clayton Hutton was a British inventor known for his war service with MI9, a secret branch of Military Intelligence. Hutton designed and distributed ingenious escape and evasion aids for Allied servicemen; silk maps disguised as playing cards, dart-firing fountain pens, cigarette holders doubling as telescopes, bootlaces containing flexible saws for cutting through prison bars, and cufflinks containing miniature compasses. Like Charles Fraser-Smith at the Ministry of Supply, his gadgets influenced 'Q-Branch' in the later James Bond spy adventures by Ian Fleming. A genuinely rare book in first impression.

First edition. Major Clayton Hutton (1893-1965), a decidedly Q-like figure, was responsible for the development of devices such as silk escape maps, hidden telescopes, steel-cutting shoelaces, and reversible uniforms at MI9. This book charts his work and the story of his post-war legal dispute with the British government, who prevented him from publishing for eight years for fear of revealing national secrets. Octavo. Half-tone photographic frontispiece and 8 plates. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine a little cocked; jacket unclipped, panels slightly scuffed at edges: a near-fine copy in like jacket.