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WHEATLEY**, DENNIS: : THE SECRET MISSIONS OF GREGORY SALLUST: THE SCARLET IMPOSTOR & FAKED PASSPORTS & THE BLACK BARONESS. **[OMNIBUS - Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.HUTCHINSON & CO. LTD.,1st June,1955.

ISBN No ISBN.

UK,Cr 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Printed in Great Britain by WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON LTD.,THE MAYFLOWER PRESS (late of Plymouth),WATFORD.NFINE/GOOD.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten inscribed dedication thus: 'For Mr Ken Dakin With best wishes from Dennis Wheatley' to the 'author's note' page and no price-clip (17/6 net) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,matt,colour pictorial artwork by SAX,illustrated front+spine/backstrip with yellow+red lettering to front,white+red lettering to spine/backstrip,rear panel with lightly grubbed white background with black+red lettered publisher's advert and critics' reviews for Wheatley's 'The Island Where Time Stood Still' title; with some negligible shelf-wear,creasing, chipping with mainly minor loss to edges and corners; all corner tips rubbed with miniscule chips and reciprocal loss,and to rear top edge and corner an approx. 2.25" x 2.25" x 1.5" triangular portion missing affecting letters DENNI of Wheatley's christian name to advert on the rear panel.A further two,1" (approx.) closed, attached,diagonal tears across surname, affecting letter 'E' in 'LEY'S and just missing the letter 'S' of WHEATLEY'S Both head+foot of spine/backstrip with miinmal chipping and loss but without affecting any lettering to name at top and publisher's name at foot - all tears still attached without repairs or sellotape either to inside or outside,to those faults - and no other major nicks or tears present.Top edges with very light ageing/ toning and virtually no foxing/spotting, fore-edges similar; contents bright,crisp, tight and clean - text body and page edges virtually foxing-free - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an accidental,uniform consecutive pages' top corner creases to pp25-8,else appears unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - rear,top corner tip with small bump/crease - publisher's original,plain black cloth boards/covers; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or fraying present,with blocked gilt letters to spine /backstrip and bright,clean b/w pictorial map illustrated endpapers,both hinges solid,sound and without any splits,tears or cracking.Front endpapers taken from 'The Scarlet Impostor',the rear endpapers taken from 'Faked Passports',and both sets were designed by Diana Younger,Wheatley's step-daughter,for the original first issues of those titles in January and June,1940 respectively.UK,Cr 8vo HB+dw/dj, author SIGNED,1st edn,ix-xipp+2-441pp,iii-ivpp+1-422pp and 1-376pp [paginated] respectively.Each story includes a title separator page and a contents list/table and 32,32 and 25 chapters respectively. A very uncommon SIGNED 1st edn title in an equally rare dw/dj.[See also my book ID rja906520 for another example of same title,but unsigned and minus its dw/dj - but still,and also,an uncommon UK,1st edn thus.] The first of two Gregory Sallust omnibuses,this one featuring: a) 'The Scarlet Impostor' (7th January,1940),b) 'Faked Passports' (June,1940) and c) 'The Black Baroness' (22nd October,1940),and sequentially includes the 3rd,4th and 5th Gregory Sallust stories of espionage and crime novels. a) 'The Scarlet Impostor' is the first of the seven volumes incorporating all the principal events which occurred between September,1939,and May,1945, covering the activities of Gregory Sallust,one of the most famous Secret Agents ever created in fiction,about the Second World War.When Gregory landed in Germany early in 1940 his task was to contact an anti_Nazi organisation ready to overthrow Hitler and sue for peace.Masquerading first as a German General, and then an SS Gruppenfuhrer,the extreme danger and difficulty with which he was faced made him doubt that he would ever escape from Germany again, surrounded as he was by some of the most vicious and determined Nazis of the Third Reich. b) 'Faked Passports'. The revolt of the German generals had failed and the Nazi purge was mounting in savagery when Gregory Sallust entered Berlin dressed as a Wehrmacht colonel and riding in an official SS car.His purpose was to rescue the lovely Erika von Epp,who by now was certain to be in the hands of Nazi torturers: and the only way Sallust could be sure of locating her was to pay a social call on Hermann Goering. . . .How Sallust's colossal audacity takes him into Goering's private sanctum and later out of it as the Reichmarschall's secret emissary to Finland,makes only the start of a story as robust and hair-raising as any of the other best-selling novels by this most distinguished and successful author. c) 'The Black Baroness'. In this exciting Scarlet Impostor story Dennis Wheatley takes as his background the seventy terrific days from Hitler's invasion of Norway in April to the surrender of the French in June.Gregory Sallust once more plays his part in adventure after adventure in Scandinavia,the Low Countries and right through France,his adversary on this occasion being the Black Baroness,the French associate of his old enemy Herr Gruppenfuhrer Grauber. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,Cr 8vo HB+ dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
'For Mr Ken Dakin With best wishes from Dennis Wheatley'

WHEATLEY**, DENNIS: : THE SECRET MISSIONS OF GREGORY SALLUST: THE SCARLET IMPOSTOR & FAKED PASSPORTS & THE BLACK BARONESS. **[OMNIBUS]

LONDON.HUTCHINSON & CO. LTD.,1st June,1955.

ISBN No ISBN.

UK,Cr 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Printed in Great Britain by WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON LTD.,THE MAYFLOWER PRESS (late of Plymouth),WATFORD.VG++.No owner inscrptn. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain black cloth boards/covers; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or fraying present,with blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and bright,clean b/w pictorial map (the low Countries and Finland respectively) front+rear,illustrated endpapers,both hinges solid,sound and without any splits, tears or cracking.Front endpapers taken from 'The Scarlet Impostor',the rear endpapers taken from 'Faked Passports',and both sets were designed by Diana Younger, Wheatley's step-daughter,for the original first issues of those titles in January and June,1940 respectively.UK,Cr8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xipp+2-441pp,iii-ivpp+1- 422pp and 1-376pp [paginated] respectively.Each story includes a title separator page and a contents list/table and 32,32 and 25 chapters respectively.Top edges with very light ageing/toning and virtually no foxing/spotting,fore-edges similar; contents bright,crisp,tight and clean - text body and page edges virtually foxing-free - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an accidental,uniform consecutive pages' top corner creases to pp25-8,else appears unread apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards/covers; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or fraying present,with blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and bright, clean b/w pictorial map (the Low Countries and Finland respectively) illustrated endpapers,both hinges solid,sound and without any splits,tears or cracking.Front endpapers taken from 'The Scarlet Impostor',the rear endpapers taken from 'Faked Passports',and both sets were designed by Diana Younger,Wheatley's step-daughter,for the original first issues of those titles in January and June,1940 respectively.UK,Cr8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,ix-xipp+2-441pp,iii-ivpp+1-422pp and 1-376pp [paginated] respectively.Each story includes a title separator page and a contents list/table and 32,32 and 25 chapters respectively. An uncommon 1st edn title.[See also my book ID rja906420 for another example of same UK title,but author SIGNED and with its rare dw/dj.] The first of two Gregory Sallust omnibuses,this one featuring: a) 'The Scarlet Impostor'(7th January,1940),b) 'Faked Passports'(June,1940) and c) 'The Black Baroness'(22nd October,1940),and sequentially the 3rd,4th and 5th Gregory Sallust stories of espionage and crime novels. a) 'The Scarlet Impostor' is the first of the seven volumes incorporating all the principal events which occurred between September,1939,and May,1945, covering the activities of Gregory Sallust,one of the most famous Secret Agents ever created in fiction,about the Second World War.When Gregory landed in Germany early in 1940 his task was to contact an anti_Nazi organisation ready to overthrow Hitler and sue for peace.Masquerading first as a German General, and then an SS Gruppenfuhrer,the extreme danger and difficulty with which he was faced made him doubt that he would ever escape from Germany again, surrounded as he was by some of the most vicious and determined Nazis of the Third Reich. b) 'Faked Passports'. The revolt of the German generals had failed and the Nazi purge was mounting in savagery when Gregory Sallust entered Berlin dressed as a Wehrmacht colonel and riding in an official SS car.His purpose was to rescue the lovely Erika von Epp,who by now was certain to be in the hands of Nazi torturers: and the only way Sallust could be sure of locating her was to pay a social call on Hermann Goering. . . .How Sallust's colossal audacity takes him into Goering's private sanctum and later out of it as the Reichmarschall's secret emissary to Finland,makes only the start of a story as robust and hair-raising as any of the other best-selling novels by this most distinguished and successful author. c) 'The Black Baroness'. In this exciting Scarlet Impostor story Dennis Wheatley takes as his background the seventy terrific days from Hitler's invasion of Norway in April to the surrender of the French in June.Gregory Sallust once more plays his part in adventure after adventure in Scandinavia,the Low Countries and right through France,his adversary on this occasion being the Black Baroness,the French associate of his old enemy Herr Gruppenfuhrer Grauber. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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

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