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McKENZIE, ANDREW: : The Missile: A Nicholas Cornish Adventure. [a T. V. Boardman British Bloodhound No.266.]

.LONDON.T. V. BOARDMAN & CO. LTD.,1959.

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UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (10s. 6d net) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,4-colour block (b/w,grey and red) pictorial artwork by Denis Mcloughlin,illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with white lettered title (the downstroke of T of first word of title,coloured red) and black-lettered author name; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author+title as front and thumbnail illustration and publisher's capitalised, black-lettered+b/w illustrated colophon and book number (266) to foot of same, rear panel with white background to black-lettered publisher advert for Spring 1959's titles with author credits and accompanying short synopses.Some minimal shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to lower edges and corner tips – top corner tips with miniscule rubbing and reciprocal loss,both head+foot of spine/ backstrip with miniscule nicks to gutter folds/ crease,a small closed nick/tear below artist's name on front's lower edge towards the same fore-edge corner.A similar,small closed tear with a crease fold,towards front's top,fore-edge corner and the rear,lower corner also with a small closed tear - but no other major nicks, tears or splits present.Top edges lightly aged/ toned with minimal sporadic foxing towards its fore-edges,the fore-edges brighter and cleaner without foxing/spotting,bottom edges with a pair of small blemishes with minimal ingress to pp102-104 lower edges' margins,another unrelated small,single blemish to pp26 lower edge margin; else contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - text body near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain red paper-covered boards with printed black ink pipe-smoking bloodhound logo to upper board's right-hand lower corner; bright,crisp, blocked black ink lettered spine/backstrip and publisher's thumbnail colophon (deer-stalker-hatted,meerschaum pipe-smoking bloodhound) and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,7-191pp [paginated] includes 15 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title with synopsis and to it's reverse, publisher's list of author's other titles to date,a title page, and a title separator page.                      Described hard,fairly and honestly and in detail,much better than it actually reads!        Visually the exterior appearance is near exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 60+ year-old age.It is only the minimal exterior faults that prevents a slightly higher overall grading.Despite them,it really is still an exceptional,exemplary copy for its cleanliness, brightness and lack of further detracting faults.                                The last title of 7 written/published between 1955-59 beginning with 'Always Fight Back,' featuring detective Nicholas Cornish.            Hella Torma did not like the idea of taking on another Security case,but Nicholas Cornish had accepted Dodds' invitation to meet him at a pub in Lincolnshire near one of the new Thor missile launching bases.But before he could meet Dodds, he was interrupted by an American airman who threatened him with a service revolver.      Cornish soon realised that there was something very wrong at the top-secret installation,and,as he well knew,a slip-up with a Thor missile could spell death to hnudreds of thousands of innocent people.                                          Andrew Carr MacKenzie (b.1911 – d. 2001) was a journalist,novelist and a parapsychologist from New Zealand.He started a journalistic career and worked between 1928 and 1938 for The Evening Post of Wellington.He later moved from New Zealand to England where he became a columnist for Kemsley Newspapers. [Trivia fact: James Gomer Berry.1st Viscount Kemsley,GBE (b. 7 May,1883 – d. 6 February,1968) was a Welsh colliery owner and newspaper publisher.He founded Kemsley Newspapers, which owned The Sunday Times, The Daily Sketch and The Sunday Graphic amongst its titles.As owner of Kemsley Newspapers, Viscount Kemsley made several written contributions to his in-house journal The Kemsley Writer. He also oversaw the publication of the large format hardback book 'The Kemsley Manual of Journalism',(Cassell, 1950). Sub-titled 'A Comprehensive Guide to the Practice and Principles of Modern Journalism', this featured an introduction by Kemsley and an essay from his Foreign Manager Ian Fleming,later the author of the James Bond novels.]           MacKenzie was a writer of detective novels.Two series featured Police Superintendent Branigan - 6 novels between 1948-51 and detective Nicholas Cornish - 7 novels - see above. He was vice president of the Society for Psychical Research and has been described as a leading researcher in the field of psychical research in the 1970s.  Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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