New York: Ballantine Books, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo [8], 247, [5] pages, hardcover in dust jacket. 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..... 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. Octavo, 504 pages. Corners bumped, especially at top of both front and rear, leading to some creasing of pages..... More
No place of publication stated: [Veterans of the Office of Strategic Services], 1974. No edition stated. Small Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 inches; 267 x 205 mm), [12 pages] in stapled wrappers. Transcript of a speech by William J. Casey (1913-1987), accepting the William J. Donovan Award from..... More
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
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
Salisbury, U.K. Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd., 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160 mm), viii, 407, [1] pages, in publisher's original blue cloth, in a photo-illustrated dust jacket. The author, Jean Overton Fuller (1915-2009), was a prolific British author..... More
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
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1965. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 218 x 145 mm), 320 pages, black cloth, gilt titles to spine, in a price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. The Russians are secretly putting missiles in East Germany. Or are they? British spies attempt to..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 231 pages. SIGNED by Ian McEwan on the title page. His fourth novel, a spy thriller set in 1955 Berlin. CONDITION: Fine in a Fine dust jacket. 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..... More
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
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
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
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
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