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 about Background to Danger

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1953. [Post-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[vi]; 270. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper by Biro priced at 12/6. A lovely fine copy of the book in a lightly used jacket with one neat tear to upper. Most attractive. Eric Ambler... More about The Schirmer Inheritance

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 about Mr. Standfast

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 about The Big Sleep

London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.240. Publisher's black cloth, top page edge tinted blue, photographic endpapers depicting the sky at night, photographic dustwrapper. No inscriptions or price-clipping. A clean, fine copy. Not a scarce book, yet elusive in truly fine condition like this, presumably... More about Twinkle Twinkle Little 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 about Yesterday's 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 about Romance of a Spy

London: Simon and Schuster, 2004. [Modern literature] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 221; [1] blank. Publisher's illustrated wrappers. Light spotting to edges else a fine copy. Meet Lucifer Box, His Majesty's most daring secret agent: equal parts James Bond and Sherlock Holmes, with a twist of Monty Python... More about The Vesuvius Club. A Lucifer Box Novel

London: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, 1915. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.304; [1], advertisements. Frontispiece illustration by Gilbert, with tissue guard. Publisher's original wine-coloured embossed cloth with titles in black to spine and upper; apparent secondary binding (a superior decorated black cloth gilt also exists)... More about The Embassy Case

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 about A Grue of Ice

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 about Chance Awakening

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 about The Secret Hand