Tremor of Intent (A Secret Service romp!).
London: Heinemann Ltd, 1966. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.240. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in rather sultry photographic dust jacket, designed by Larry Learmonth, priced at 21s to front flap. Contents clean, edges a little dusty/spotted, some inevitable rubbing to the black areas of the jacket, minor wear at foot. Very good indeed. A brilliantly funny spy novel described in the blurb as 'a Secret Service entertainment gone wild (even with a fashionable bit of James Bond debunking)'. Burgess was an interested party in the spy novel boom, and would review some of Ian Fleming's books (they shared the same literary agent); he would later work on an unused James Bond film script and wrote the introductions for the British paperback reissues published by Coronet. This copy is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #70328
Gilbert, p.40, 645.
Price: £48.00
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