The Business of Spying
by Murphy, Brian Michael
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0859400298
- ISBN 13
- 9780859400299
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Milton House Books, 1973. Oversized hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 208 pages including many black-and-white and full colour illustrations throughout; very gently used, not a trace of shelf wear other than light bumps to spine ends, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white; DJ also gently bumped along edges, two tiny tears, now in new mylar protector. [this copy priced low, priced to go as bookseller is nearing retirement] See also our listings for John Barron's bestseller: KGB:The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents, and for Peter Deriabin's The Secret World : KGB, and this, just in, David Lewis's exceptionally scarce Sexpionage: The Exploitation of Sex by Soviet Intelligence. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042070
- Title
- The Business of Spying
- Author
- Murphy, Brian Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0859400298
- ISBN 13
- 9780859400299
- Publisher
- Milton House Books
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- English ESPIONAGE RUSSIAN TRUE CRIME SOVIET UNION USA OSS AMERICAN CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY HISTORY UNITED STATES OFFICE STRATEGIC SERVICES SECOND WORLD WAR TWO ESPIONAGE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BRITISH NONFICTION COLD WAR SPIES CIA SIS USS
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Military History; Espionage;
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