MOSS, W. Stanley. [Patrick Leigh Fermor].
Ill Met By Moonlight.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd, 1950.
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Item Number: RRB-153292
"More thrilling than any detective story I can remember, and written in a modest and most engaging manner" (W. Somerset Maugham): First Edition of W. Stanley Moss' Ill Met By Moonlight; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
First edition of this classic account of the Cretan resistance during World War II. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with fifteen plates in half-tone and two maps. Founded over a century ago in 1900, the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largest traditional bindery in America exclusively devoted to fine traditional leather bookbinding by hand. Harcourt Bindery uses 22 karat genuine gold leaf, top grades of Nigerian moroccos, and hand marbled papers from craftsmen representing seven countries. In fine condition with light toning throughout. An exceptional presentation.
W. Stanley Moss recounted his and Patrick Leigh Fermor's activities during the Second World War as agents in Crete of the Special Operations Executive, notably their extraordinary kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe, Commander of the 22nd Air Landing Infantry Division that was occupying Crete, and his removal to Cairo and British war forces in 1944. The manuscript was written in early 1945 but was censored by the Head of SOE, Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins, by instruction to Colin Mackenzie, Head of Force 136. It was made into the 1957 film starring Dirk Bogarde by the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Ill Met By Moonlight.
$1,200.00
In Stock