Author: Francis Beeding
Title: The Secret Weapon
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1940 . First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of Francis Beeding's espionage thriller, in the unnervingly illustrated original dust wrapper. The first US edition of this work, printed in June 1940, and with 'First Edition' to the colophon.The novel was published in the UK earlier the same year with the title 'Not A Bad Show&apos.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A novel of international espionage starring the author's recurring hero, Colonel Alastair Granby. Beeding's 1927 novel 'The House of Dr. Edwardes' was used as the basis for the Hitchcock film 'Spellbound', starring Gregory Peck. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, with minor bump to back strip head. Dust wrapper front wrap excellent, with light sunning to back strip, and light handling marks to rear wrap. Significant chipping and small losses to dust wrapper back strip head and tail. Small closed tears to head and tail of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: John Leslie Palmer Francis Beeding Colonel Alastair Granby Not a Bad Show Francis Beeding None


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