Search Results: Espionage from Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2003. First Edition, First Printing.
Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 155 mm), 455, [1] pages, in red and black boards, title to spine (hard cover).
Two friends, both spies during the Cold War, get together again to work against the American invasion of Iraq. Or so they're led to believe by a mysterious billionaire.
CONDITION: Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Boards rubbed, dust jacket shows light edge wear.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo (7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 185 x 120 mm), 247, [3] pages, gray quarter cloth over black boards, in an unclipped, photo-illustrated dust jacket (hard cover).
Communist agent arrives in the U.S. to persuade a scientist to defect to the Soviet Union. He also gets involved with some American women who suspect he's up to no good. As far as Cold War fiction goes, it's not bad at all. Published during the McCarthy era, this book actually goes easy on the lurid, anti-Red hysteria of so much Cold War fiction. The author, Stanley Baron, worked as a political analyst for the U.S. government, so presumably had a keen insight into the psychology and motivations of Communist agents and fellow-travellers.
CONDITION: Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket that has a bit of rubbing and a couple of nicks. The flap edges are slightly trimmed but the $1.50 price remains intact on the front flap. An attractive copy of a Ballantine hardcover.… Read More

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, pp. xxv, 530 pages.An insiders' account of the espionage battle in Berlin between the CIA and the KGB from the end of World War II to the building of the Wall in 1961. These authors certainly know their stuff. David Murphy was chief of the CIA's Berlin station; Sergei Kondrashev was a lieutenant general in the KGB; and George Bailey was a director of Radio Liberty. CONDITION: Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Small creases to spine ends and slight edge wear.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. A high-level Soviet diplomat working at the United Nations seeks asylum in the U.S. This is his story, along with vivid portraits of Soviet leaders and a look at what takes place in the Politburo and in the world of espionage. Octavo, pp. viii, 378. Near Fine with some minor soiling on the top and bottom edges in a Very Good dust jacket that has some sunning and edge wear.

Small Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 inches; 267 x 205 mm), [12 pages] in stapled wrappers (soft cover).
Transcript of a speech by William J. Casey (1913-1987), accepting the William J. Donovan Award from the Veterans of the Office of Strategic Services. Casey had been chief of secret intelligence for the European theatre of operations during World War II. This award -- from a group of former intelligence officers -- cites him for his organization of radio teams that he parachuted into Germany to send back intelligence on Nazi positions.
In his speech, Casey lavishes praise on Donovan and others in the clandestine services and discusses some of his own intelligence work during World War II. A fascinating look at a side of the war that was crucial in securing the Allied victory over the the Axis powers.
OCLC shows only two institutional holdings, at Georgetown and at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. Separately, we find two copies among Casey's papers at the Hoover… Read More

London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1979. First U.K. Edition, Third Printing.
The book that led to the unmasking of Anthony Blunt as the "Fourth Man" in the Cambridge spy ring.
The author strongly believed that Queen Elizabeth's art adviser, Anthony Blunt, was the "Fourth Man" in the Cambridge spy ring. But, apparently fearing a libel suit, he referred to Blunt as "Maurice." In a dramatic announcement to Parliament in November 1979, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirmed that "Maurice" was, indeed, Anthony Blunt.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo, 504 pages, in an illustrated dust jacket (hard cover).
CONDITION: Corners bumped, especially at top of both front and rear, leading to some creasing of pages. Otherwise, Very Good in a dust jacket that shows some edge wear and creases.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. First American Edition, 1st Printing.Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 142 mm), 252 pages, in quarter cloth over boards, gold titles to spine. With the dust jacket and the scarce "In Transit Docket."Strange things take place in a Paris brothel, involving not only sex but also....nuclear weapons. The book includes the top secret "In Transit Docket," which lays out a U.S. plot against the Chinese. A typically fast-paced Deighton thriller. CONDITION: Small closed tear in pages 29-30, a couple of small stains on the fore edge, some fading to the titles on the spine. Dust jacket unclipped with slight offsetting from the red end papers onto the front flap, a bit of rubbing to the top of the front and rear panels. "Transit Docket" is Fine, Overall, a Very Good copy.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2002. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Lawrence Schiller on the title page (under which the word "and" has been written and then marked through). Based on research and interviews by Lawrence Schiller and Norman Mailer, the book presents a psychological portrait of FBI agent Robert P. Hanssen, who sold classified information to the KGB and its successor organization over more than 20 years. Hanssen was captured in 2001 and is serving multiple life sentences in a Colorado prison. The book is written as a novel, with imagined dialogue. Schiller and Mailer were unable to interview Hanssen, who was already a guest of U.S. taxpayers. Nonetheless, it's a fascinating attempt to get into the mind of an American traitor, especially through the device of having Hanssen talk to himself while looking at a mirror. 8vo., xv, 317 pages. Near Fine, with a minuscule mark to the upper board's right edge and a bump to its lower right corner, in a Fine dust jacket. SCARCE… Read More

New York: Random House, Inc., 1954. First Edition, First Printing.
Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 248 pages, in quarter cloth over paper boards, titles to upper board and to spine (hard cover).
American journalists learn a secret about the head of the dreaded security police in a European people's democracy. They head for the border town of Skaro, with the bad guys on their heels. A Cold War thriller.
CONDITION: Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light toning to spine edges, internally clean and bright. The unclipped dust jacket has some nicks and soiling.

New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1973. First American Edition, 1st Printing.
Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), 244 pages, in light gray boards, titles in black to spine, silhouette of a spy to upper board, pink topstain (hard cover).
A young British agent is assigned to trail a cold-blooded Russian "diplomat." Then things start to go wrong for both sides. "You're sorry when it's over," The New York Times wrote in a laudatory review published October 28, 1973. Striking cover illustration by Michael Codd.
CONDITION: Tiny ink mark near top of fore edge, some fading and spotting to topstain. Internally, clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy in a a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is bright and unclipped with light edge wear and a tiny chip to the bottom of the rear panel where it meets the spine.

Octavo, 288 pages, in an illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). Book club edition.
A riveting look at the case of Edward Lee Howard, who worked for the CIA and defected to the Soviet Union in 1985. Two years later, Howard secretly met in Budapest with the author, David Wise, to tell his version of events.
If anyone can unravel a spy case, it's journalist David Wise, who was one of the most authoritative writers about the world of espionage. As for Howard, he died under mysterious circumstances at his Russian dacha in 2002. He was 50 years old.
CONDITION: Good only, with foxing of page edges, bumped corners, some rubbing to the boards, and a previous owner's embossed seal on the front end paper. The dust jacket is rubbed on both panels and on the spine.