Murder By Perfection

Author: McCORMICK, Donald (1911-1998)
Title: Murder By Perfection
Publication: London: John Long, 1970

Description: [True Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.208. With a suite of eight black & white plates. Publisher's grey cloth lettered in gilt, photographic dust-wrapper priced at 35s. From the comprehensive Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled notes to flyleaf. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Lightly handled with minor edgewear; near fine. Author Donald McCormick was a cloak-and-dagger fanatic who worked alongside James Bond creator Ian Fleming both in wartime Intelligence work and as Fleming's assistant at the Foreign Desk of The Sunday Times. McCormick wrote several spy-related books and a full-length biography of Fleming.

Gilbert, p.648.

Seller ID: 64824

Subject: James Bond 007



Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers on London's fashionable King's Road, after 40+ years of bookselling in the capital, Adrian relocated to Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.

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