[Signed] Red Eagle. The Story of the Russian Revolution and of Klementy Efremovitch Voroshilov, Marshal and Commissar for Defence of the Union of Soc

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[Military History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.390 [26]. With a coloured halftone frontispiece, 16 plates (30 illustrations), and 8 maps. With author's gift note in blue ink to the title page: 'For / Percy Muir / With the best of / good wishes / from / his friend // Dennis [underline]'. Publisher's grey cloth blocked in red. A near fine copy without the jacket. One of a few non-fiction works by thriller/adventure writer Dennis Wheatley. Recipient Percy Muir (1894-1979) was a book expert who introduced Ian Fleming to book collecting and assembled his important collection of scientific and pioneering books which 'made things happen'. Muir was a regular contributor to The Book Collector journal, of which Ian Fleming was the proprietor. Muir charmingly appears as British agent Muir, head of Station Z (Zurich) in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Cape, 1963), whose signal room is hidden behind a book-lined wall. Purchased from the late great bookseller Nigel Williams (descriptions inserted), this copy is from the Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled ownership to endpaper.