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)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
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)
- 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;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Action Adventure;
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