James Bond First Editions

From Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy.

DALZEL-JOB, Patrick (1913-2003).

UK: Alan Sutton, 1991. [Military history / autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvii; 184. Illustrated with a suite of black and white plates. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket, priced at £14.95. A clean ex-library copy with small stamp and shelf number to copyright page, lacks free endpaper. Very good. A scarce book. Dalzel-Job was a British naval intelligence officer, undercover agent and team commander with Ian Fleming's No. 30 Commando during World War II. He scored several key successes against the enemy including evacuating some 5,000 Norwegians from Narvik, disabling the German destroyer Z29 at Bremerhaven with full crew and taking surrender of the town of Bremen. An accomplished linguist, author, mariner, navigator, parachutist, diver, and skier, he is widely considered as a model model for James Bond. Item #72330

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