Visa to Limbo. By William Haggard [i.e. R. Clayton]. LONDON : 1978. HARDBACK in JACKET.
by HAGGARD, Haggard (1907-1993) pseudonym of Richard Henry Michael Clayton
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- ISBN 10
- 0304300705
- ISBN 13
- 9780304300709
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London: Cassell and Co.,, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1978. Hardback. Black cloth; gilt lettered spine. In black and colour pictorial dust-jacket (not price-clipped). Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. FINE in like jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. (iv), 201 pages. WILLIAM HAGGARD (born Croydon 11 August 1907, died Frinton-on-Sea 27 October 1993) was the pseudonym of Richard Henry Michael Clayton, the son of the Rev. Henry James Clayton and Mabel Sarah Clayton. He was an English writer of fictional spy thrillers set in the 1960s through the 1980s, or, as the writer H. R. F. Keating called them, "action novels of international power." Like C. P. Snow, he was a quintessentially British Establishment figure who had been a civil servant in India, and his books vigorously put forth his perhaps idiosyncratic points of view. The principal character in most of his novels is the urbane Colonel Charles Russell of the fictional Security Executive, (clearly based on the actual MI5 or Security Service), who moves easily and gracefully along Snow's Corridors of Power in Whitehall. During the years of the fictional spy mania initially begun by the James Bond stories, Haggard was considered by most critics to be at the very top of the field. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
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- Title
- Visa to Limbo. By William Haggard [i.e. R. Clayton]. LONDON : 1978. HARDBACK in JACKET.
- Author
- HAGGARD, Haggard (1907-1993) pseudonym of Richard Henry Michael Clayton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0304300705
- ISBN 13
- 9780304300709
- Publisher
- Cassell and Co.,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- English fiction. Fiction in English. Government investigators Great Britain Fiction. Fiction in English, 1900 Texts Genre Detective and mystery stories. Fiction Political fiction. text
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