The Guns of Navarone.

MACLEAN, Alistair.

Item Number: 143788

London: Collins, 1957.

First edition of this work, basis for the classic 1961 film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, Richard Harris and James Darren.  Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Alistair MacLean on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

The Guns of Navarone is a novel about the Second World War and was made into the film The Guns of Navarone in 1961. The story concerns the efforts of an Allied commando team to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea and prevents over 1,200 isolated British Army soldiers from being rescued.