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London: The Reprint Society, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. Teal cloth with leather title block and gilt lettering to spine. Text clean, tight, bright, no marks. "A reporter's research into the identity- and anonymous activities of a dilettante revolutionary who ends up in a cold, Slav grave provides a precise, ironic and occasionally intense portrait of London's Fleet Street- and a newspaper empire which stands to fall. For the Baron, who controls twelve papers and is worth ten million, shies away from and silences the obituary on George Waterman, and in so doing whets the curiosity of Wensley, his editor, and the columnist who follows up the story which he tells. And from Waterman's mother to his young mistress-secretary, from the Continent to the Irish Sinn Fein rebellion in the '20's, the connection between the Baron and the dead traitor is established and engenders a cold interchange of blackmail.... A devious drama of the gentlemen of the press--at their most ungentlemanly -- and an assured and… Read More

London: The Reprint Society, 1952. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Book. Good. Binding see description. Reprint Society, 1952. 317pp. Green cloth, maroon label, gilt.*A novel of life. 0.

Book. Good. Binding see description. Reprint Society, 1952. 317pp. Green cloth, maroon label, gilt.*A novel of life. 0.

Book. Good. Binding see description. Reprint Society, 1952. 317pp. Green cloth, maroon label, gilt.*A novel of life. 0.

Book. Good. Binding see description. Reprint Society, 1952. 317pp. Green cloth, maroon label, gilt.*A novel of life. 0.

The Reprint Society Canada, 1952. " It is really a story of bad types - a bad type of newspaper proprietor and a bad type of editor, told by a type of columnist who is certainly not squeamish. There is a sound plot that sustains interest to the very end. One can say frankly that there are no dull periods in a book with a grim subject, but salted with plenty of strong, masculine humour." -Yorkshire Evening Post critic. Teal coloured boards, attractive spine label with gilt lettering. No ownership markings in this book! Illustrated dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: The Reprint Society 1952 ReprintBlue-green cloth boards. Gilt title print within a burgundy title block to spine. Minor wear to board extremities. An early reprint that follows on the heels of the first published edition (1951). No ownership detractions. Attractively bound....bright and clean.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London England: The Reprint Society. Near Fine/No Jacket. 1952. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Hardback Hardcover. The Paper Palace by Robert Harling. Green cloth with gilt lettering. 317 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .

Nabu Press, 2011. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This first edition is in very good condition. Bend present to the book as shown in the photo. Otherwise an excellent clean and bright copy with pages free from inscriptions or markings.

London: Reprint Society, 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Thus. Light foxing and a photo of the author pasted to the title page. Otherwise a good copy.

Chatto & Windus, London. 1951. First edition.. Hardback.. Very Good (-), without dust jacket. Light stain to spine and top edge, not affecting interior. No owner's markings.

London: The Reprint Society, 1952. [Fiction] Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.317; [1], blank. Publisher's cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper. A novel set in a newspaper office. A fine copy in very good wrapper, worn at crown. Part of the comprehensive archive of James Bond material assembled by Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with his bookplate. Author, editor and typographer Robert Harling worked alongside James Bond creator Ian Fleming both in wartime Naval Intelligence and later in journalism; Some of Fleming's writing appeared in Harling's publications Alphabet & Image, and House & Garden, and the two were senior figures at Kemsley Newspapers (Sunday Times). He was responsible for reviving the stencilled 'tea chest' lettering which adorned the jackets of Fleming's James Bond novels, and himself an author, Harling wrote several novels and a full-length biography of Fleming. Ian Fleming The Bibliography (2017 edition), p.644.