Spy; Twenty Years of Secret Service by Lonsdale, Gordon - 1965

Hawthorn Books, NY, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. Op. Upper front board corner lightly bumped, otherwise vg+ in lightly scuffed, edge-worn dj. 220 pp. Illus.

New York: Hawthorn, (1965). Dime-sized hole in the margin of one leaf but text legible, otherwise Very Good, in Very Good Dust Jacket with slight edge wear and smudging. . Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition.. 1965.

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 indications of the book was a library book inside. This book covers the six years Lonsdale spent in England, the assignments he undertook, the Old Bailey trial, and his years in prison. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Espionage; Cold War; Inventory No: 0222533. .

New York: Hawthorn Books, 1965. The book has the previous owner's name stamped on the first page. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Neville Spearman, 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations. Autobiography of the Russian Secret Agent, sentenced in England 1961 for espionage, released to Soviet authorities in 1964. Previous owner's bookplate, initials on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Record # 412091

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc, 1965. First American Edition [stated] Presumed 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 220, [4] pages. Illustrations. DJ is worn, torn, soiled and chipped. Ink note on t-p. Minor edge soiling. In 1965, a year after Molody's return to the Soviet Union, a book called Spy: Memoirs of Gordon Lonsdale was published with the approval of the Soviet authorities. It has to be read with caution. For instance, he claims Peter and Helen Kroger, convicted as members of the Portland Ring, were innocent. In fact they were veteran spies as the Soviets confirmed when they were exchanged in 1969. For Molody, life back in the Soviet Union was not a happy one. According to George Blake he was particularly critical of the way trade and industry were handled. He was given a post of minor importance and took to drinking. Konon Molody died, under what was thought by some to be mysterious circumstances, during a mushroom-picking expedition in October 1970; he was 48. Retired KGB… Read More

London: Neville Spearman, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. Octavo hardback. 218 pp, Illustrated Very Good condition in Good + unclipped dust jacket (spine and edges of jacket a bit embrowned with some tiny closed nicks along the top edge) No inscriptions

London, UK: Neville Spearman, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. 218pp, monochrome plate frontispiece with occasional further black and white plate illustrations. In black cloth-covered boards with silver titles on spine. 8vo. Gently rounded at spine tips. Some mild strip tanning on endpapers, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean and tight. Lonsdale, convicted as a Russian spy in 1961 but released and handed back to the Soviet Union in an exchange in East Berlin in 1964, here presents the first ever autobiography of a Soviet Spy.

Neville Spearman, 1965-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 2.7919 in x 21.0660 in x 14.4670 in. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Some spotting/discolouration of pages due to age but book in generallly good condition considering age.

Hardback. 1965. Memoirs. 218pp, 25 plates, Neville Spearman, London 1965 *Ghost written by Kim Philby. A little underlining & notes on the dust jacket by a person who had indirect connection with Lonsdale. A very good copy in slightly marked dust jacket. .