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London: Werner Laurie, 1952. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. Good/good. brown cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 175 pp first edition dj worn and torn on top of the spine area spine slightly cocked
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Synopsis
Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (also Spycatcher), is a book written by Peter Wright, former MI5 secret service officer and Assistant Director, and co-author Paul Greengrass. It was published first in Australia. Its allegations proved scandalous on publication, but more so because the British Government attempted to ban it, ensuring its profit and notoriety.
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- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78491
- Title
- Spycatcher
- Author
- Pinto, Oreste
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo
- Publisher
- Werner Laurie
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Military History, Cold War, World War 2
- Bookseller catalogs
- Espionage;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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