Norman Collins — The Bat That Flits

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1952 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling novel about a scientist at a Government Station for research into bacteriological warfare. The first edition, first impression, of this novel, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.Collins's novel is set in the early 1950s in the aftermath of the war, following one James Hudson and his discovery of a mysterious note placed on his pillow. Norman Collins was a British writer, and television executive, who became one a major figure in the establishment of the Independent Television (ITV) network in the UK.With a former owner's inscription, dated 1957, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Externally, exceptionally bright. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Light chipping to dust wrapper head and tail, with small closed tear to back strip head. Price torn from front flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.