Black Boomerang (An Autobiography Volume Two) [First Edition] by Sefton Delmer - 1962

Secker & Warburg, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1962. First Edition. 320 pages. Pictorial dust jacket, priced 25s, over green cloth with silver gilt lettering. Yellow top edge to textblock. Ian Fleming worked with Delmer and was the godfather of Delmer's son Felix. Upper text block edge dyed yellow. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some mild cracking to gutters. Binding slightly loose. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Several brown spots to text block edges. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some mild marks, small stains, surface wear and bleach spotting to surfaces. Silver lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with slight creasing. Some tanning to all surfaces. Mild rubbing to rear panel. Slight crease to spine. Several tiny marks to underside.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: Secker & Warburg, 1962). [Wartime memoir]. First UK Edition. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Yellow top-edge. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper price-clipped to the inside flap and with one tiny dot to the right-hand edge of the front panel. Sefton Delmer and Ian Fleming met in Moscow in the 1930's and worked together in Naval Intelligence during WW2. Delmer was recruited by the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) to organise black propaganda broadcasts to Nazi Germany as part of a psychological warfare campaign. Fleming worked closely with the PWE as liaison officer for Naval Intelligence. After the war, Delmer became Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent at the Daily Express and Fleming joined The Sunday Times as Foreign Manager. NB: Fleming was the godfather of Delmer's son Felix, whose Christian name was appropriated for use as James Bond's American partner… Read More

London: Secker & Warburg. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670170917 . "[Presents] the story of [Sefton Delmer's] secret 'Black Radio' operation in World War 2 - and how it has boomeranged today. In this, the second volume of his autobiography, he explains the use to which his unique knowledge of the German people was put. The task of his special section of the Political Warfare Executive was to launch broadcast propaganda which purported to come from a German station. Much of what was broadcast was the truth - gleaned often from the tapped conversations of German prisoners - much of it had a ring of truth, sometimes it even deceived our American allies, always it purported to come from patriotic Germans eager to expose the weaknesses and corruption which were impeding the noble Fuhrer's efforts. Provides fascinating examples of actual broadasts, of deceptions practised, of lies disseminated, of new techniques whereby he and the merry… Read More