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THE SPY'S BEDSIDE BOOK

by Greene, Graham; Greene, Hugh (editors) (John Buchan; W. Somerset Maugham; L. C. Moyzisch; Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Bernard Newman; Qilliam Le Queux; T. E. Lawrence; Herbert Greene; Dennis Wheatley; Vladimir Petrov; Peter Fleming; Ian Fleming)

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London: The Folio Society, 2006. Book. Illus. by Nick Hardcastle;. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xxi) 261 pp. Blue cloth decorated in black, brown and white on the front panel; lettered in white on the spine; headband; presented in a brown slipcase. Very lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Introduction by Stella Rimington; Introduction by Graham Greene; A Mission Is Proposed by John Buchan; Directive to Colonel Zabotin - anonymous; A Damned Good Story by W. Somerset Maugham; A Late Call at the German Embassy by L. C. Moyzisch; The Value of Hide and Seek by Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Take a Hard Boiled Egg by Bernard Newman; Example of Invisible Writing - anonymous; Tricked by William Le Queux; A Whip of the Circassian Sort by T. E. Lawrence; A Nasty Scratch by William Le Queux; A Spy Advertises by Herbert Greene; A Bathroom at the Paris Ritz by Dennis Wheatley; A Trussed Fowl by William Le Queux; In the Back of the Head by Vladimir Petrov; A Little Black Beret by Peter Fleming; At the Social Club by George Griffith; That Indeed is to Die by Fenimore Cooper; Seduced with the Old Tricks by W. H. Auden; I Spy by Graham Greene; A Segment of German Sausage by Peter Fleming; The Sad Fate of Major Andre by Richard Garnett and Anna Seward; The Police Spy by Joseph Conrad; Seven Miles from Calais by Max Pemberton; A Twinge by William Le Queux; A Narrow Squeak by Sir Paul Dukes; A Cross Country Run by Belle Boyd; Good Hunting by Maurice Paleologue; Foreign Travel by Ian Fleming and Walter Schellenberg; Seex Fat English Pigs by Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry; The Case of the Dixon Torpedo by Arthur Morrison; The Adventures of Bonaparte by Compton Mackenzie; Colette and Mata Hari by Colette; The Man in the Soft Cap by Edmund Blunden; A Meet in the Shires by William Le Queux; The Spies' March 1913 by Rudyard Kipling; A Royal Spy by Alan H. Burgoyne; Schnitzel alias Jones by Richard Harding Davis; How it Strikes a Contomporary by Robert Browning; Could Not Believe His Eyes by Sir Robert Baden-Powell; None Other Than by William Le Queux; The Waiters' Union by E. Phillips Oppenheim; Royal Gifts by William Le Queux; A Well Appointed Office by Walter Schellenberg; Blanc de Blanc Brut 1943 by Ian Fleming; A Certificate from General Washington by Fenimore Cooper; Prison Reading by R. H. Bruce Lockhart; Planning a Novel by Eric Ambler; Love by Major Andre; Queer People by Sir Basil Thomson; The Lawrences by Hugh Kingsmill; Operation Goethe by Thomas Mann; What the Soldier Said by William Blake; Coleridge and Wordsworth Suspects by S. T. Coleridge; The Gendarme and the Painter by Paul Gaughin; A Lawyer from Kent by Walter Schellenberg; The Amorous Duchess by Maurice Paleologue; Postscript to Dreyfus by Guy Chapman; Beneath the Open Windows by Thomas Hardy; The Ordinary Route by Maurice Paleologue; Equipment for Tibet by Lieutenant Colonel F. M. Bailey; Vodka with Pepper by Ian Fleming; Dichlorethyl Sulphide by R. L. Green; Butterfly Hunting in Dalmatia by Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Carrier Pigeons by H. R. Berndorff; A Visit to the Lavatory by R. H. Bruce Lockhart; Top People Read The Times by William Le Queux; A Plant by Admiral Sir William James; The German Governess; The Simplest Thing in the World; and An Early Microphone by Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry; The Hansom Cab Approach by George Griffith; and Calloway's Code by O. Henry; followed by Epilogue by Hugh Greene..

Synopsis

Graham Greene was born in 1904. While at Balliol College, Oxford, he published his first book of verse. He continues to write throughout his lifetime, and is the author of The Third Man, Our Man in Havana, The Quiet American, and The End of the Affair, in addition to many other novels, short story collections, plays, essays, travel books, and film scripts. During World War II he served with the British Secret Intelligence Service. He died in 1991. Hugh Greene was born in 1910. He came to prominence as a journalist when he was made a chief correspondent in Nazi Berlin. During World War II he served in the RAF. Greene went on to join the BBC and was made Director-General in 1960. He died in 1987.

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Bookseller
W. Fraser Sandercombe CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
228000
Title
THE SPY'S BEDSIDE BOOK
Author
Greene, Graham; Greene, Hugh (editors) (John Buchan; W. Somerset Maugham; L. C. Moyzisch; Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Bernard Newman; Qilliam Le Queux; T. E. Lawrence; Herbert Greene; Dennis Wheatley; Vladimir Petrov; Peter Fleming; Ian Fleming)
Illustrator
Nick Hardcastle;
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Edition
First Printing - First Thus
Publisher
The Folio Society
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2006
Size
8vo
Keywords
noir; pulp; hard boiled; secrets; murder;
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