The Sabre Squadron hughes Nicely signed on the titlepage

Nicely signed on the titlepage in flowing ink hand

300 engravings in total

gilt lettering

but with no internal markings or old inscriptions

The Sabre Squadron hughes Nicely signed on the titlepageLondon: Anthony Blond, 1966. First Edition. Hardback cloth in the excellent, unclipped dust jacket. The third title in author's acclaimed Alms for Oblivion sequence of ten novels. "A muted description of foreign intrigue, set in Germany in 1952. Its anti hero, slight, moralistic Daniel Mond, is a brilliant mathematician sent from Cambridge to Gottingen to work for his doctorate. He becomes involved with the deciphering the of complex posthumous papers