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The Abominable Snowman Adventure
by IZZARD, Ralph, O.B.E. (1910-1992)
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. [Mountaineering/exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.302. Green cloth hardback, cartographic endpapers, illustrated dust-jacket. Ink name to front blank, price clipped to front flap. Some light dampmarks to margins, jacket chipped to base of spine and upper. Very good. During World War II, Izzard served with distinction as a Naval Intelligence officer and commando with Ian Fleming's 30 Assault Unit. Highly decorated for gallantry and awarded an OBE, Fleming based elements of his debut novel Casino Royale and its protagonist James Bond on Lt. Cdr. Izzard, especially a card game in which he found himself playing poker against covert Nazi intelligence agents at a casino in Pernambuco, Brazil. Post-war, Izzard returned to journalism as a foreign correspondent - in India to cover the partition crisis, and for a failed search in 1946 for a monster lizard 'the buru' in a remote Assamese valley. This expedition followed, a trek in Tibet to uncover the truth behind the 'Yeti'. Izzard also covered the Middle East for the Daily Mail; in Egypt, then Beirut, conveniently adjacent to trouble brewing in Cairo, Nicosia, Iran, Iraq and the Gulf. His weekend explorations with his children lengthened into a 300-mile camping expedition through the Lebanese mountains with their cook as interpreter and two donkeys for transport. Coincidentally, his daughter Sabrina Izzard owned our bookshop, now run by Ian Fleming's bibliographer. Gilbert, p.16.
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- Adrian Harrington Rare Books
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- 65083
- Title
- The Abominable Snowman Adventure
- Author
- IZZARD, Ralph, O.B.E. (1910-1992)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
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- Publisher
- London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955
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Adrian Harrington Rare Books
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Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
About Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.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. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.Award-winning 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.We are always interested in buying quality books in our subject areas, from individual titles to complete collections.
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