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Espionage Books & Ephemera
World War II: War Crimes & Espionage
by Karen Farrington
Abbeydale Press, Great Britain, 2003. Softcover. As New. World War II lasted 2000 days and affected the lives of millions. This book details the events that surrounded the lives of heroic and courageous men and women as well as the inhuman, evil and corrupt people who affected the course and purpose of WW II. 240 pages. Fully Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Espionage; Military & Warfare; War::World War II. ISBN: 1861471149. ISBN/EAN: 9781861471147....
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£10.57
The Butcher's Embrace. the Philby Conspirators in Washington.
by Newton, Verne W. :
London. MacDonald. 1991.. 0356197050 . Near fine bright red boards with gold lettering to spine, minor edge chips, very good coloured pictorial dust jacket, some edge creasing, not price clipped, no inscriptions, 448 pages, no inscriptions, black and white illustrations. .
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£12.00
The Shadow Warriors O.S.S. and the Origins of the C.I.A.
by Smith, Bradley F
New York, New York: Basic Books. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1983. First Printing. Hardcover. 0465077560 . There is some darkening to the DJ and a couple small tears. There is a larger tear to the back of the DJ .
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£5.67
Plots and Paranoia A History of Political Espionage in Britain 1790-1988
by Porter, Bernard
London: Unwin Hyman. 1989. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. 276 pages. Presents the history of Britain's covert counter-subversive agencies from earliest times to Spycatcher. It disentangles the secret state from the web of myth which has surrounded it in the past. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£11.63
Only One River To Cross: An Australian Soldier Behind Enemy Lines in Korea
by Harris, A.M
Sydney: Australian Military History Publications. 2004. Small Quarto Size. MINT copy in like Dustjacket. A New Copy. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 124 pages. The author recounts his experience with the occupation force in Japan after WWII and his service with 3RAR in Korea. Competent in Japanese and Chinese, Harris returned to Korea in 1953 and was placed in command of a Special Agent Detachment whose task was...
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£15.86
The Secret Service in the Late War. Comprising the Author's Introduction to the Leading Men at Washington, with the Origin and Organization of the Detective Police , and a Graphic History of his Rich Experiences, North and South, his Perilous Adventures
by Baker, L. C
Boston: B. B. Russell, 1885. Baker spied for the Union during the Civil War and later was in charge of those tracking down Lincoln's assassins. Undated reprint, circa 1885; unusual imprint - the title page is a cancel. Hardcover, full grey cloth, gilt titling, black decoration. Light wear, corners a bit bumped & frayed; inner hinges partly split; pages tanned. Text clean; 12, [17]-398 pages (nothing missing, just odd pagination) + 2 pages ads for the original publisher's books circa 1873;...
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£48.56
Territory of Lies: The Rise, Fall, and Betrayal of Jonathan Jay Pollard
by Wolf Blitzer
Harper & Row, 1990. Soft cover. Good. 342 pages, illustrated with photographs on four double-sided plates. Mass-market paperback (Harper Paperbacks), rubbing along spine and especially to front wrap, which has two eroded patches (largest one 2" long), faint foxing to edges, edges and page margins age-toned, small singes to inside front cover and ffep. No markings observed to text.
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£6.47
Hitler's Spies
by David Kahn
Fascinating detail of the extraordinary men, the missions, the conflicts and double-crosses behind one of the most pervasive, powerful yet fatally flawed intelligence systems the world has ever seen. 525 pages with 24 pages of illustrations. Book in good+ condition with general fading and some wear to cover.
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£9.51
Memoirs of a Bourgeois Falsifier
by Rigby, T. H. Edited by Kevin Windle
North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2019. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Foreword and Epilogue by Kate Rigby. Includes Index. 363 pages. T. H. Rigby, 'Harry' Rigby to many colleagues and friends, was a leading pioneer in Soviet Studies during the Cold War. In this memoir he recounts his career as researcher, teacher, public intellectual and sometime adviser to MI6. He includes fascinating accounts of his time in the British Embassy in Moscow in...
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£26.40
Secret Warfare The Battle of Codes and Ciphers
by Norman, Bruce
New York: Dorset Press. 1973. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. DJ a trifle age-toned. Black & white illustrations. 187 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£10.57
M. MI5's First Spymaster
by Cook, Andrew
Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing Limited. 2004. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 287 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£10.57
THE COLD COASTS A Cold War Caper in the High Arctic
by Burns, Jim
Pietas Publications/Memini. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by author on endpaper: "With best regards Jim Burns 4/18/13". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 155 pages; Signed by Author .
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£11.33
THE CHINKS IN THE CURTAIN: The Story of a Most Unlikely Spy
by Porter, Joyce
N.Y.: Scribners, 1968. 1st American edition, so stated. light wear at extremities, else near fine in dust jacket, unclipped, $3.95 price intact, has some minor rubbing and soiling, a few small nicks along edges. "The Chinks in the Curtain" features the return of that most reluctant spy Edmund Brown, first met in SOUR CREAM WITH EVERYTHING. Returning ignominiously from Russia to England, he is dispatched to Paris to discover why a source of information has dried up. He infiltrates the...
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£15.54
Widows
by Corson, William R.; Trento, Susan B.; & Trento, Joseph J
London: Macdonald. 1989. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 575 pages. Four American Spies, the Wives They Left Behind and the KGB's Crippling of Western Intelligence. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£10.57
Great Court Scandal, The
by Queux, William le
John Leng & Co., Ltd; Dundee & London., 1907. Presumed first thus. Undated, circa 1907. . Hard. Good. 16mo. 6 1/2".. B/w frontispiece. Beautiful art nouveau border to title page.. Good. Publishers pictorially blocked tan cloth darkened and a little worn. Chips from the corner of first 3 leaves. A well thumbed, sound copy.
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£8.40
Spy!
by Deacon, Richard with Nigel West
London: BBC Books. 1980. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 190pages. Six stories of modern espionage. Additional research by Bernard Adamczewski and Linda McCarthy. Contents: Sorge The Tokyo Ring; The Venlo Incident; Cynthia; Double-Cross Camp 020; Stashinsky The Murder...
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£8.46
Nothing Sacred: Nazi Espionage Against the Vatican, 1939-1945
by David Alvarez and Robert A. Graham, SJ
London: Frank Cass, 1997. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 185pp+ index. Very good in publisher's wraps.
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£12.14
The Griffin
by Arnold Kramish
The greatest untold espionage story of World War 2. Paul Rosebaud, The Griffin, was Churchill's most valuable spy throughout the Second World War. 294 pages with 33 black and white illustrations. Book in good condition ex library with number on first page and stamp on last page, some foxing, light tanning, blue lines on pages 8, 13 and 16 and general reader wear. Dust jacket in good condition in clear wrapper and two stickers on back.
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£6.34
The Carlos contract: A novel of international terrorism
by Phillips, David Atlee
Macmillan, 1978 Stated first edition 1978. Inscribed/SIGNED and dated by author. David Atlee Phillips is widely considered to be one of the main players in the JFK assassination. He is also thought to be the elusive "Maurice Bishop" cover agent that was Lee Harvey Oswald's handler seen conferring with Oswald in Dallas in early November 1963. He was also heavily involved in the 1973 Allende coup and the Bay of Pigs leading the pre-invasion training in Guatemala. Phillips was recruited to the CIA in the...
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£3,233.15
spy: Twenty Years of Secret Service
by Lonsdale, Gordon
Neville Spearman, London, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Illustrator: Photographic. 450 g; 218 pages, illustrated with facsimiles of documents, and black-and-white photographs. Photographic illustrated dust jacket. Offset of the front end pages, price clipping of the front fold over, rubbing of the front and rear panels of the jacket, fading of the spine section of the jacket, abrasions from the removal of a sticker or tape from the lower portion of the spine. (There are no...
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£7.94
LEE : A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald by His Brother
by Oswald , Robert L
Coward-McCann, 1967 Ex Library copy. Good overall. Has library label and old pocket card in rear inside. Spine lettering faint with call letter sticker at bottom. Minor cloth fray at spine. Good account of his last moments surrounding the JFK assassination. Rare. Written by LHO brother.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair.
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£238.74
The Security Service 1908-1945: The Official History
by Public Record Office
PRO Publications, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. This first edition is in very good condition with a good unclipped dust jacket. Crease present to the front end paper. Otherwise the pages are excellent and fine.
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£45.00
The HAUNTED WOOD
by WEINSTEIN, ALLEN; Alexander Vassiliev
The edges of a few pages turned over, some by accident. Largely Unread. 16 pp b&w photog plates. Please ask for our other books on espionage.
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£8.42
Shadows Dancing: Japanese Espionage Against the West, 1939-45
by Matthews, Tony
Robert Hale Ltd, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This ex library first edition first printing is in very good condition with a very good unclipped dust jacket. Library stamps present to the front end papers and stickers on the jacket at the spine. Otherwise a very good clean copy.
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£4.99
Spying on the Bomb American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea
by Richelson, Jeffrey T
New York, NY: W. W. Norton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0393053830 . B&W and Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, with the exception of some beginning fading to the spine. .
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£16.19
