Betrayal from the East; the inside story of Japanese spies in America by Hynd, Alan - 1943

Robert M. McBride & Company, 1943. hardcover. Acceptable. 8x5x1. no dust jacket

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1943. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket. Original price of $3.00 is still present on the front flap. DJ is scuffed and soiled with numerous edge and corner chips/small tears. Underside of dust jacket was neatly reinforced along the top and bottom with masking tape, over the decades the tape has become dry and brittle and can easily be popped off but the underside will be darkened because of the glue. Front and rear end pages also show a faint toning because of this tape. Green cloth boards underneath are clean with only minor edge and corner bumps. Internal binding is good, no hinge issues. Pages are toned due to age and some light spotting/foxing is present. No bookplates or library markings but the front end page has some handwriting on it that was erased but you can still see the residue. Stated first edition on the copyright page.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company (1943) 288 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine ends bumped. DJ moderately soiled and foxed w/ wear and short tears to edges. Mild chipping to corners and spine ends. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1943. 5th printing. hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good for age/Fair/Good for age. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good for age in Fair/Good- for age, clipped, jacket in protective mylar. Some wear and bumping to corners and top and bottom board edges; some rubbing/wear to covers; slight spine slant; penned names of two former owners to inside front cover and one to front endpaper; faint pencil marks of erased former owner's name and date; book store sticker pasted to inside front cover; pages browned. Jacket with wear to edges and corners; rubbing/wear to panels; creasing to panels; soiling to panels; age toning to panels; edges and corners of panels with chips, nicks; and small tears; head of spine scuffed; few 1" closed tears to panels.

NY: National Travel Club. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. No DJ .

NY: Robert M. McBride & Company; (1943). First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Stated first edition, near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. Small bookstore label on front pastedown; minor wear to black cloth boasrds. The red and white dust jacket is a little sunned on the spine, with some minor wear at edges. $3.00 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book. 287 pages.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1943. First Edition. good, fair. 287, slight discoloration inside boards, DJ worn, soiled, and small tears, small pieces missing from DJ.

New York, USA: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1943. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Betrayal from the East: The Inside Story of Japanese Spies in America. By Alan Hynd. Hard covers and in good condition.

New York: Robert M. McBride and Co., 1943. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth, lettered in gilt. Slight lean, lightly rubbed corners and spine extremities, lightly soiled bottom text block edge. 287 pp. Dust jacket design by William Fairchild. Dust jacket chipped with loss at head of spine, affecting "Betrayal" in spine title, slightly chipped at heel of spine, some edge rubbing evident; jacket appears to have been printed for a slightly thicker book, prior to the change-over to wartime paper, and is labeled on front flap as a Fourth Printing, but the book is a stated First Edition, so either the jacket is not original to this copy, or subsequent printings of the book were not noted as such on the copyright page. pp. 108-109 browned where a vintage associated news clipping from the New York Sunday Mirror has been laid in, else clean interior. Very scarce signed copy, personally inscribed by author to… Read More