The Whispering Mountain

Author: AIKEN, Joan (1924-2004), [MARRIOTT, Pat, illustrator]
Title: The Whispering Mountain
Publication: London: Jonathan Cape, 1968

Description: [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, with SIGNED CARD tucked in. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.240. With title-page illustration and jacket design by Pat Marriott. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, map endpapers printed in colour, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 21s. A few light marks to edges else a clean, fine copy. A Tokien-esque historical fantasy adventure about a mythical golden harp. Illustrator Pat Marriott (1920-2002), was the wife of Ian Fleming's literary advisor Michael Howard; she designed the jackets for three of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels published by Cape. This copy was later part of the comprehensive James Bond collection assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencilled notes and signature within). His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography.

Seller ID: 65572

Subject: James Bond 007, Illustrated & Plate Books, Children's Books



Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers on London's fashionable King's Road, after 40+ years of bookselling in the capital, Adrian relocated to Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.

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