The Quiet Canadian. The Secret Service of Sir William Stephenson
( Sir William STEPHENSON ) HYDE, H. Montgomery
With a Foreword by the Hon. David Bruce.
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Hamish Hamilton, [1962]
Stock code: 49762
Price: £110.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 12 plates on 10 and map in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red tweed cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
The first detailed account of Stephenson, his organisation BSC (British Security Co-ordination) and its crucial WWII partnerships with Hoover's FBI and Donovan's OSS. 'James Bond is a highly romanticised version of a true spy. The real thing is... William Stephenson" -Ian Fleming, The Times, October 21, 1962. Enser, p.398.