Clayton Hutton [Ian Fleming Interest] – Official Secret – First UK Edition 1960
£485.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Official Secret’ published by Max Parrish in 1960. A very good book with shadowing to the front board. Small previous owner’s ticket to the front pastedown. In the very good wrapper with a small chip to the head of the front panel and some browning here and there. Some surface rubbing.
A gripping 1960 memoir detailing his inventive work with MI9 during World War II. Tasked with helping Allied prisoners of war escape, Hutton devised ingenious tools—compasses hidden in buttons, maps concealed in playing cards, and even escape kits inside Monopoly boards. The book reveals his unorthodox methods, clashes with bureaucracy, and a flair for deception that blurred the line between military necessity and theatrical creativity. The links to the ‘Q’ branch in Fleming’s James Bond series is a solid one. Publication was banned for many years.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Official Secret’ published by Max Parrish in 1960. A very good book with shadowing to the front board. Small previous owner’s ticket to the front pastedown. In the very good wrapper with a small chip to the head of the front panel and some browning here and there. Some surface rubbing.
A gripping 1960 memoir detailing his inventive work with MI9 during World War II. Tasked with helping Allied prisoners of war escape, Hutton devised ingenious tools—compasses hidden in buttons, maps concealed in playing cards, and even escape kits inside Monopoly boards. The book reveals his unorthodox methods, clashes with bureaucracy, and a flair for deception that blurred the line between military necessity and theatrical creativity. The links to the ‘Q’ branch in Fleming’s James Bond series is a solid one. Publication was banned for many years.
