Reuters' Century. Foreword by Lord Layton

Published by London: Max Parrish, 1951

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[Journalism] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.276. Blue hardback cloth binding lettered in gilt to the spine, in photographic dust-jacket priced at 10/6. With Reuters' Centenary printed and embossed slip, SIGNED in black ink by Christopher Chancellor, general manager of the news agency from 1944 to 1959. Contents clean and fresh, light spotting to rear panel of jacket. A history and celebration of the famous British news service, for which a young Ian Fleming worked in the '30s as a sub-editor. This copy was part of the comprehensive archive of James Bond material assembled by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled ownership within. Gilbert, p.656.

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Title
Reuters' Century. Foreword by Lord Layton
Author
STOREY, Graham (1920-2005) [CHANCELLOR, Sir Christopher (1904-1989)]
Publisher
London: Max Parrish, 1951
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Hardcover
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First Edition.
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