The Sixth Column : A Singular Tale of Our Times
Peter Fleming
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1951
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Hardcover
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D/j design by Osbert Lancaster, 1st printing, not price clipped ( 9sh 6d net), no owner's name or other inscription, page ends age toned, signs of pencil markings to some pages ( now rubbed out), D/j spine has small loss at head, D/j has nick to front corner and at head of inside front flap, D/j front cover has small tear at base and is generally a little grubby to rear. This copy owned by me for over 40 years. Seller Inventory # 049886
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Title: The Sixth Column : A Singular Tale of Our ...
Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis, London
Publication Date: 1951
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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The Sixth Column: A Singular Tale of our Times
Published by
Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951
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Hardcover
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
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Condition: Fair. 1951. No Edition Remarks. 224 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to back pastedown. Bookseller sticker stuck to front pastedown. Top textblock edge dyed black. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards. Seller Inventory # 1747116693ALK
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The Sixth Column: A Singular Tale Of Our Times.
Published by
Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951,1st ed., 1951
Used
Seller: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, Australia
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h/c + d/j, 21x13.5cm, 224 pages, several pages have small dog era, price clip, small owners stamp on FFEP, some tanning to rear d/j fold, removable plastic covering, some small cover scuffs. Seller Inventory # 56413
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The Sixth Column: A Singular Tale Of Our Times
Published by
Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Black Top page edges. Name of the previous owner. Publication of 224 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, chipped pieces and small closed tears along the edges. The boards are in good condition. There is little foxing around the block of the book and on the early and last pages. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # 6qhfs
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The Sixth Column: A Singular Tale of Our Times
Published by
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, UK, 1951
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, United Kingdom
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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. Seller Inventory # 030812
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The Sixth Column. A Singular Tale of Our Times
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London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1951, 1951
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
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[James Bond Source Book] FIRST EDITION. 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 jacket with a few tiny nicks. "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. The present copy is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012, published by Peter Fleming's daughter Kate Grimond) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. See Campbell; Ian Fleming: A Catalogue of a Collection [22]. Gilbert, p. 618. Seller Inventory # 67758
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The Sixth Column: A Singular Tale Of Our Times
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London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
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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. Seller Inventory # 104502
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