Contemporary gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper; boards very good; jacket price-clipped otherwise very good.
Jacket design by Raymond Hawkey.
£150
London, Jonathan Cape, 1964.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The third of Deighton’s “Harry Palmer” novels, in which the blood-stained legacy of Nazi Germany is revealed in the intricate moves of cold war espionage…
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Contemporary gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper; boards very good; jacket price-clipped otherwise very good.
Jacket design by Raymond Hawkey.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Chapman & Hall, 1955.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 12s.6.
A very good first edition of the second book in Waughs' Sword of Honour trilogy, loosed derived from the author's own wartime experiences.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Herbert Jenkins, [1942].
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A striking first edition of this romantic, behind-the-scenes thriller of the Secret Service by a prolific author.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Michael Joseph, 1945.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A very good first UK edition of aviator Ernest Gann's exciting, realistic aeronautic adventure set in the far north of Canada.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, John Hamilton, [1936].
First edition. Ace Series. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3s.6d.
A solid first edition of a classic aviation tale by prolific writer George E. Rochester, drawing on his own experience in the Royal Flying Corps; bandit menace in the air above Tibet, bad Buddhists, and more...
Modern Literature
First edition, Huchinson, [1943].A rare collection of short stories, particularly scarce in the dust-jacket.