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Background to Danger.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. [Intrigue] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.280; [1], blank; [1], advertisements; [2], blank. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in burgundy, pictorial jacket priced at $2.00. Edges of text block toned, ink ownership to flyleaf, jacket with a few chips and tears, clipped..... More
The Mask Of Dimitrios.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. FIRST EDITION. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone novel. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Internally very clean with no ownership marks, bookplates or inscriptions. Covers are fresh but for a little sunning to spine, a few small marks and the..... More
Matzohball. An Israel Bond Thriller.
New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1966. [James Bond pastiche] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.126; [1], order form; [1], blank. Publisher's colour softcovers with original price $1.00. Lightly handled; fine. 'A new adventure of Hebrew secret agent Oy-Oy-7'. More
Mr. Standfast.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1919. Advance proof copy. 8vo. Publisher's original plain brown wraps, slightly spotted with minor edgewear. Internally clean, unifom light toning to page block. A most unusual and scarce advance proof copy of Mr. Standfast, one of Buchan's scarcer Richard Hannay stories. Protected by a tailor-made brown..... More
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The Thirty-Nine [39] Steps,
London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. [Espionage classic]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.253; [1]; [2], publisher's advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in full blue oasis, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, gilt titles to upper cover, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. A little of the usual edge toning to the cheap..... More
The Big Sleep.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.302. Publisher's black cloth with red titles and trim. Edges a little toned, joints a touch rubbed. A clean, near fine example. The author's first book, introducing Philip Marlowe; cool, sharp, handsome - and bitterly alone. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Chandler's writing was..... More
Yesterday's Spy.
London: Jonathan Cape. 1975. Spy thriller, set in the dangerous world of Arab gun-running. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket. No inscriptions, price-clipped to flap. A lovely fine copy. The jacket artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960's James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books..... More
Yesterday's Spy.
London: Jonathan Cape. 1975. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.224. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket. The jacket artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960s James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books. A lovely fine, crisp copy. Uncommon thus. With comparisons to Graham Greene..... More
The Great Spy Race.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in Richard Chopping-esque pictorial dust-jacket designed by Broom Lynne. Top edge a little dusty, spine a shade toned else a clean, fine copy. Typical 'sixties James Bond cash-in, complete with a...... More
Romance of a Spy.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1945. Octavo, pp.192. Bound in publisher's green cloth, in a green pictorial dustjacket depicting characters from the book with a map. Advertisements to rear panel. Cloth in excellent condition with very limited signs of wear. Dustjacket creased with several minor losses, although colour remains very bright..... More
Founder Member
London: Frederick Muller 1969. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, Publisher's dark blue cloth, slight lean to spine, lovely fresh pages, fine. Photographic dustwrapper with a little wear to extremities and a few tiny scratches to the spine, near fine. A Boysie Oakes spy thriller written before Gardner's stint as the official James..... More
A Burnt-Out Case.
London: Heinemann, 1961. [Modern literature] First English Edition. Novel set in the Belgian Congo. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's silver-titled black cloth in original pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 16s. Light spotting to top edge else fine in like wrapper. Greene's previous novel 'Our Man In Havana', had impressed author..... More
The Hunted.
London: Penguin Random House, 2014. [Fantasy] FIRST UK EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.440; [2], advertisements. Publisher's illustrated hardcovers with 'skull' design endpapers, all edges black. Signed to title page with 'Limited Edition' printed statement (no number specified) and 'Signed Copy' label to cover. Absolutely fine/as new..... More
The White South.
London: Collins, 1949. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles blocked to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper. Gilt tarnished. Very good in a like, price-clipped jacket. A murder-mystery based in the Antarctic, adapted for the big screen in 1954 as 'Hello Below Zero'..... More
A Grue of Ice
London: Collins 1962. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. Pp.320. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in prictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by H.A.Darroll (who designed the Fleming-introduced All Night at Mr Stanyhurst's) The dustjacket features a quote from Ian Fleming on the rear panel. A used copy, the..... More
Chance Awakening
London: Souvenir Press. 1977. Espionage thriller. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.251. Publisher's hardback cloth in a pictorial dust-wrapper. Light general wear. No inscriptions or price-clipping. A very good copy indeed. Author's third novel. Markstein was a prolific writer in the espionage genre who scripted two hugely popular series for television; 'Danger..... More
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Crime and Again [And Four To Go].
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Detective stories] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by William Randell unpriced for export. Some toning, jacket with a few minor nicks, one chip to foot of spine. Very good..... More
The Secret Hand
London: Herbert Jenkins 1919. Espionage novel, sub-titled 'Some Further Adventures by Desmond Okewood of the British Secret Service'. First Edition. Octavo, pp.320. Publisher's red cloth lettered and ruled in black. Internally clean, some edge-spotting. A near fine copy. More
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