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, 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.
Modern Literature
First edition, Huchinson, [1943].A rare collection of short stories, particularly scarce in the dust-jacket.
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition. A very attractive example with jacket design by Abbey.
London, Collins, 1941
A typical espionage title set in Istanbul by James Morgan Walsh, born 1897 to 1952, also wrote as H. Haverstock Hill, Stephen Maddock, George M. White. He was born in Australia and came to England in 1925. The majority of his work leans towards spy and adventure rather than pure detective fiction
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.
Detective Fiction
(A Detective-Inspector McCarthy Yarn).First Edition. Wright & Brown, n.d. [c.1941].