Sixth Column Singular Tale Times by Fleming Peter (4 results)

Condition: Good. 1951. No Edition Remarks. 224 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 224pp. Crimson cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge sprayed blue. 8vo. Cloth slightly pushed and faded at spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original paper, pictorial dust wrapper. Dust wapper a little rubbed on corners and spine ends, gently bumped along extreme upper edge, slight shelf wear. Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. In dedicating The Sixth Column to 'My brother Ian', Peter Fleming became the first to dedicate a novel to his younger brother and creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming. Widely considered to be influential in shaping James Bond and the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in particular. A spy thriller, The Sixth Column's central character is a thriller writer who creates a protagonist similar to Bond, and the novel draws attention to the UK's need for a swaggering and fearless hero. Ian Fleming set about writing Casino Royale jsut a few months after The Sixth Column was published. …

dj. First Edition. [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 returned to writing and produced a novel The Sixth Column, which had its main character a thriller writer who creates a protaganist with marked similarities to Bond. Just six months after Peter published The Sixth Column, Ian set to work on Casino Royale."- Ben MacIntyre; For Your Eyes Only, 2008. See Campbell; Ian Fleming: A Catalogue of a Collection [22]. Gilbert, p. 618. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Date on title page. No additional dates, editions or printings indicated (9s 6d net). Near fine, if not near fine plus or fine hardback in near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has a 1/4 inch chip to head of spine. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.…