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LYALL**, GAVIN TUDOR: : The Secret Servant.** [First Harry Maxim novel of the quartet.]

LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1980.

ISBN 0340253851.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork design by Raymond Hawkey, illustrated dw/dj with capitalised pale blue letters with a white line internal bordered edge to author's name and a lower case white lettered title to front panel of dw/dj,simillarly lettered,but lightly sunned/faded spine/backstrip,and author's b/w portrait photograph with critics' white lettered reviews to rear panel respectively; and all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no major nicks, tears or splits present.Top edges bright with faint blemish but no foxing/spotting,fore-edges similarly bright and cleaner without blemish; lower edges with partial black ink 'SUPPLIED FOR THE PUBLIC SERVICE' stamp of lower edges; contents still bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – virtually pristine, possibly unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original,textured plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and clean plain white sets of endpapers with inevitable,but faint off-setting from dw/djs' inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-224pp [paginated] includes 32 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages - a dedication to verso of title page. Author's first title of his series of novels with the character Harry Maxim,of an eventual quartet,as the protagonist. Lyall originally wrote 'The Secret Servant' as the pilot episode of a proposed BBC TV series.The series was directed by Alistair Reid,with screenplay by Brian Clemens.The role of Harry Maxim was played by Charles Dance,with Jill Meager as Agnes Algar,Harvey Ashby as George Harbinger and Dan O'Herlihy as Prof. John White Tyler. See also my book ID rja1010622 for another UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn of this same title,from this quartet. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading. Ex-SAS Major Harry Maxim is assigned to 10 Downing Street as a special assistant to George Harbinger,private secretary to the Prime Minister,following the suicide of his predecessor with the British Secret Service.Maxim is assigned to protect Professor John White Tyler,Britain's foremost military strategist on nuclear weapons policy and famed war hero (as well as an insatiable lecher).Tyler’s many enemies,including local pacifists,leftists, and radical students,as well as the KGB, will do anything,perhaps even murder,to keep Tyler from addressing a NATO summit in Luxembourg. However,are various events surrounding Tyler related? A hand grenade is thrown through the door to the Prime Minister's residence,or the death of a Czech defector? Assisted by MI5 liaison officer Agnes Algar,Maxim must uncover a horrific secret from Tyler's wartime past in order to prevent a massive foreign relations disaster,as well as keeping Tyler alive. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,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 the 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 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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