The Enormous Shadow.
London: The Reprint Society, 1956. [Psychological thriller] Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.272; [1], blank. Publisher's cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper. Gently toned to spine else a crisp, fine copy. Part of the comprehensive archive of James Bond material assembled by Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled notes to endpaper. The jacket blurb mentions the spies Burgess & Maclean as well as Leslie Charteris' 'The Saint'. Author, editor and typographer Robert Harling worked alongside James Bond creator Ian Fleming both in wartime Naval Intelligence and later in journalism; Some of Fleming's writing appeared in Harling's publications Alphabet & Image, and House & Garden, and the two were senior figures at Kemsley Newspapers (Sunday Times). He was responsible for reviving the stencilled 'tea chest' lettering which adorned the jackets of Fleming's James Bond novels, and himself an author, Harling wrote several novels and a full-length biography of Fleming. Item #64855
Ian Fleming The Bibliography (2017 edition), p.644.
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