Official Secret: The Remarkable Story of Escape Aids - Their Invention, Production - and the Sequel
Clayton Hutton
Verlag: Max Parrish, London, 1960
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1st printing (1960). 196pp. Original black with gilt titles to spine. VG book, binding square and tight, cloth covers clean, gilt titles almost completely dulled, internally excellent; no dust jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 024890
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Titel: Official Secret: The Remarkable Story of ...
Verlag: Max Parrish, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1960
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
Auflage: 1st Edition
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Official Secret. The remarkable Story of Escape Aids - their Invention, Production - and the Sequel. BANNED FOR EIGHT YEARS: THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Verlag:
Max Parish,, 1960
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Hardcover
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Anbieter: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, Vereinigtes Königreich
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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of the Official Secrets Act, only to find, on his appearance at Bow Street, that the authorities had mysteriously withdrawn their case.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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 50684
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Official Secret. The Remarkable Story of Escape Aids - their Invention, Production - and the Sequel
Verlag:
London: Max Parrish, 1960, 1960
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Vereinigtes Königreich
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[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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 71078
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