From Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
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[History / Military defence] FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 416; [1], blank. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth, in typographic dust-jacket priced at 42s. Contents clean, laminate shrink to joints else fine. A comprehensive history of the British armaments company. As a young Reuters journalist, the future James Bond novelist travelled to Moscow to cover the Stalinist show trial of six Vickers employees suspected of sabotage. This copy is from Jon Gilbert's bibliographical archive of Ian Fleming, with his pencilled ownership signature. Gilbert, p.656. Seller Inventory # 65908
Bibliographic Details
Title: Vickers. A History
Publisher: London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1963
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
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