Search Results: twenty five years in the secret service by le caron major

London: William Heinemann, 1892. Fourth Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth with gilt decoration to the front board and to the spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. Book is slightly cocked, with some faint wear to the cloth at the outer extremities of the boards and spine; head of spine slightly frayed. Occasional marginalia.

London: William Heinemann, 1892. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding with a little fraying to the spine ends. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Hinges weakening throughout. Previous owners' name to the first blank and head of the title page. The contents complete, clean but with faint stain to the very upper margins of the plates. . Hardback. Physically 8½” x 5½” (1.3 kg); (vi) 311 (16 ads.)pp; Includes: Black & white plates; Tables; Frontispiece portrait; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #191122|| Condition:

Wakefield : EP Publishing, 1974. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. A facsimile of the 10th edition of Thomas Miller Beach's memoirs, originally published in 1893. Thomas Miller Beach (who used the alias Major Henri Le Caron) (September 26, 1841- April 1, 1894) was an English spy. His services enabled the British Government to take measures which led to the fiasco of the Canadian invasion of 1870 and Kiel's surrender in 1871, and he supplied full details concerning the various Irish-American associations, in which he himself was a prominent member. In a cloth covered binding with original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally, lovely condition. Minor shelfwear to the boards. Light edgewear to the dustwrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine

Boston: American Citizen Co, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. 12mo. 205pp. Bound into leatherbacked textured maroon cloth with spine gilt and edges sprinkled. Spine with some wear and two splits at the upper shoulder, still very good and sound. The English spy Thomas Miller Beach's exploits in espionage. The American edition seems to be much more uncommon than the English edition, which seems to have seen wide circulation in the author's home country. with *OCLC* locates 10 copies of this imprint.