All Men are Lonely Now - Signed & Inscribed

First Edition. -- Condition: Fine, offsetting to endpapers, in near fine dust jacket with mark to verso from former tape at head of spine, light wrinkling to spine ends, and toning to edges. -- Details: A rather magnificent association copy, inscribed to Audrey and Miles Tripp the British crime and thriller writer who used the pseudonyms Michael Brett and John Michael Brett. Both Tripp and Thompson (who wrote under the pseudonym of Francis Clifford) where members of the Detection Club. The inscription is dated 1967, the year of publication, using his actual name Arthur, and then signed as Francis Clifford to the title page.:- 'To Audrey and Miles with all the good wishes in the world Arthur' Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson DSO (1917-75), was a British writer of crime and thriller novels who wrote under the pen name of Francis Clifford. During the war he was commissioned into the Burma Rifles and served with the Special Operations Executive, serving first in India and then in London. Miles Barton Tripp (1923-2000) was an English writer of thirty-seven works of fiction including crime novels and thrillers, some of which he wrote under noms de plume Michael Brett and John Michael Brett. He served in RAF Bomber Command during World War II, flying thirty-seven sorties as a bomber-aimer, and completed 40 missions over enemy territory. He recorded his wartime experiences in his one non-fiction work, the memoir 'The Eighth Passenger'. After the war, Tripp studied law and worked as a solicitor, and started to write fiction during his spare time. -- Octavo (book size 21x14.5cm), pp. [2] 250 [4]. In publisher's black cloth, spine lettered and blocked in gilt, upper edge tinted purple. Dust jacket priced '21s net in U.K.' to upper corner of front flap. --.…