New York: Ballantine Books, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. 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... More about All My Enemies
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. Octavo, 504 pages. Corners bumped, especially at top of both front and rear, leading to some creasing of pages... More about The Climate of Treason: Five Who Spied for Russia
No place of publication stated: [Veterans of the Office of Strategic Services], 1974. No edition stated. Small 4to (10 1/2 inches / 267 mm), [12 pages] in stapled wrappers. Governmental department stamp and log-in number on front wrapper, two horizontal folds for mailing. A Very Good copy. Transcript of a speech... More about The Clandestine War in Europe (1942-1945). Remarks of William J. Casey on receipt of the William...
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 8vo (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... More about An Expensive Place to Die
New York: Random House, Inc., 1954. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (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. Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light toning to... More about The Lights of Skaro
Salisbury, U.K. Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd., 1989. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (9 1/2 inches / 240 mm), viii, 407 pages, in publisher's original blue cloth. Foxing and a bit of soiling to top and fore edges. The dust jacket has some minor edge wear. A Very Good copy. The author... More about Déricourt: The Chequered Spy
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 155 mm), 455, [1] pages, in red and black boards, title to spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Boards rubbed, dust jacket shows light edge wear. Two friends... More about Absolute Friends
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First American Edition, 1st Printing. British spy Magnus Pym has disappeared. Arguably, one of Le Carré's best thrillers. 8vo., 475 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. More about A Perfect Spy
London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Ian McEwan on the title page. His fourth novel, a spy thriller set in 1955 Berlin. 8vo, 231 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. More about The Innocent
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... More about Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
New York: Capitol Hill Press, 1972. Revised Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front end paper: "Many thanks - / to / Tom Moran / Herbert A. Philbrick / 1972." Philbrick's account of his nine years in the Communist Party working as a spy for the FBI. Originally published... More about I Led 3 Lives: Citizen,"Communist," Counterspy
New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1973. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 8vo (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. Tiny ink mark near top of fore... More about Rotten With Honour
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... More about Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen
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... More about Breaking With Moscow
New York: Random House, 1988. 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... More about The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story of Edward Lee Howard, the CIA Agent Who Betrayed His...