War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Original light blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Ronald Standish of the Secret Service steps up to assist Bulldog Drummond in this attractive first edition.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
The first collection of stories focused on Ronald Standish of the Secret Service, by the creator of Bulldog Drummond.
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War, Invasion & Spy
A chronicle, serious and humorous, of the Battalion while serving with the British Expeditionary Force
Gloucester, John Jennings, 1915-1919 [1923].
First edition in book form. Small folio (345 x 220 mm). Original pictorial brown cloth blocked and lettered in black.
The first edition in book form of this important trench newspaper created by the 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, reissuing all twenty-five of the original 'gazettes' printed between 1915 & 1919. The issues, which regularly attained a circulation of over 1500 copies, drew on the wealth of talent which existed amongst the ranks of the Battalion, including the well-known poet F.W. Harvey, who contributed over seventy poems and verses.
War, Invasion & Spy
Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division. A Handbook of German East Africa
Prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and the War Office
[London], Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, 1916.
8vo. Original wallet-style blue cloth with fold-over section, lettered in gilt.
A great copy of this handbook issued during the First World War on behalf of the Admiralty and the War Office for official, intelligence purposes.
War, Invasion & Spy
Chatto & Windus, London, 1929 first edition
War, Invasion & Spy
Armstrong (Anthony) and Bruce Graeme. When the Bells Rang, A Tale of What Might Have Been.
First edition.
London, Harrap, 1943.
The authors imagine the consequences of a Nazi invasion ultimately defeated. A rare title listed in Bleiler but not in Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Ernest Benn, 1929.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth stamped in orange. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A spy thriller, previously serialised in The Daily Mail, "with the publication of the book Mr. Baxter will join the small and distinguished order of Shockers Extraordinary to the British Empire." (jacket blurb)
War, Invasion & Spy
1914-18 Experiences of War Resisters.
London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An impressive roster of names avowed not to violently participate in war, including Siegfried Sassoon, Bertrand Russell and Olaf Stapledon.
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition.
London, Paladin Press, 1951.
A novel set in the ruins of post war Berlin in which a war weary population live in cellars beneath the rubble of their devastated homes. Featuring the Wesen family, it provides a vivid depiction of the struggle between the Communists and the Free Democracy of the West for the possession of a bewildered people.
Rare in jacket. No copies online at time of listing.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Herbert Jenkins, [1942].
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The first of fourteen 'Tiger Lester' titles, written under the pseudonym "Don Betteridge", in an attractive dust-jacket.
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War, Invasion & Spy
London, Collins Crime Club, [1939].
First UK edition. Ex-Library. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7s6d.
Cool jacket artwork, depicting a man with a red briefcase hastening up some steps with the number '9', but not the story of a Chancellor of the Exchequer in panic, instead a departure from the crime fiction Blochman was more well-known for, into the murky world of espionage.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Collins, 1940.
First UK edition. 8vo. 3pp. advertisements. Original mauve cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/3.
Attractive jacket artwork for this surprisingly uncommon and highly collectable British edition, combining international intrigue of German & American spies in Central America, with exotic backgrounds, humour and romance.
Detective Fiction
(A Detective-Inspector McCarthy Yarn). First Edition. Wright & Brown, n.d. [c.1941].
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition.
London, Grant Richards, 1915.
Accounts of trench warfare on the Western Front during WW1. Uncommon in the dust jacket especially one as good as this.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Collins Crime Club, 1942.
First edition. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A lovely first edition of this spy thriller novel by Cheyney. Two British counter-intelligence officers track a network of German agents which they learn is based out of Dublin.
War, Invasion & Spy
A record of secret service recently achieved
London, Smith, Elder, 1903.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth with picture of the yawl in white to upper cover, rebacked in later black morocco lettered and partly ruled in gilt.
The first edition of a work often considered one of the earliest spy novels, revolving around the adventures of Carruthers and Davies as they uncover a German plot in the Frisian Islands. The novel purportedly encouraged Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, to bolster Britain's naval defenses. Unfortunately Childers' later involvement with the Irish Republicans saw Churchill adopt a less favourable impression of the author.
War, Invasion & Spy
Coles (Manning, pseud. Adelaide Frances Oke Manning & Cyril Henry Coles) Not Negotiable
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1949.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
'The scene...Brussels. The time...after the war. And the characters? Why, Tommy Hambledon, of course!' (jacket blurb). Espionage thriller.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1935.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. 8pp. advertisements. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A very good first edition, first impression of this uncommon spy novel by G.Davison, part of a series that began in 1931 with The Man with the Twisted Face.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1966.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth with 'punched tape' strip to upper cover. Dust-jacket, priced 21s.
A very good first edition of the fourth 'Harry Palmer' spy novel (although the character is never named in the books).
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition
London, Putnam, 1933.
Signed and inscribed by the author one month after publication (March 1933). A Hubin-listed secret service adventure set in London and India.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Robert Hale, 1952 [1953].
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 9/6.
Good first UK edition of this tale of romance and espionage, 'a breath-taking romance loaded with the dynamite of military secrets and international intrigue.' (jacket blurb)
War, Invasion & Spy
Fairlie (Gerard) and ‘Sapper’ [pseud. H.C. McNeile]. Bulldog Drummond on Dartmoor
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An important work in the Bulldog Drummond canon, marking the transition from 'Sapper' to Fairlie. The two had worked on the story together, but McNeile died before it was finished, leaving Fairlie to take on the mantle.
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition, first impression. London, Jonathan Cape, 1959. The seventh James Bond title.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1965.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original plain black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 18s.
A very decent first edition of the last full-length James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, in the plain second state boards. Under the heat of the Caribbean sun, Bond faces a seemingly impossible task: win a duel against Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun, and regain M's trust.
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, Hodder & Stoughton, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Asian adventure from Haggard-esque author Gompertz. Uncommon in the jacket.
War, Invasion & Spy
Written by himself. Foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Haig.
London, John Murray, 1924
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 15/-.
A scarce work in the original dust-jacket; an impressive autobiographical study by a man of equally impressive military standing, with a career spanning almost 35 years and seeing action in India, Africa and Sudan, as well as service in New Zealand and Cyprus. The foreword is by Field-Marshal Douglas Haig, a divisive figure in military history, garnering the unfavourable, and possibly unfair, moniker 'The Butcher of the Somme' for his strategic role in WW1.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Heinemann, 1958.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 15s.
A very good first edition of Greene's blackly comic espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition.
London, Heinemann, 1939
Basis of the 1945 film starring Lauren Bacall and Peter Lorre.
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition.
London. Heinemann, 1939
The basis for the 1945 film Confidential Agent, starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou and Peter Lorre. In the book, the nationality of the agent is not stated; in the film, he is Spanish.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Andrew Melrose, [1935].
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in yellow. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Compelling jacket artwork complements this uncommon tale of aerial combat and British pluck.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1931.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 3/6 and with publisher's label declaring it as newly published.
An excellent example of this spy thriller by Horler.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Harrap, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Striking jacket artwork on this tale of international intrigue, centring around the fictional Balkan country of Carpathia.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Chatto & Windus, 1939.
First edition, cut signature of author affixed to front free endpaper. 8vo. Title printed in red & black within ruled border. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in silver. Lacking dust-jacket.
The first edition of the Bristol-born Household's most famous work, a classic of thriller fiction, with (an admittedly unnamed) Hitler firmly in the author's sights.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Museum Press, 1945.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original black cloth with white skull to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Striking jacket artwork on this murder-mystery with shady espionage overtones, set in New York.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Latimer House, [1953].
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
"Here are tales for all moods, blending adventure with sentiment and revealing once again that Captain Johns knows how to cater for the older reader as well as for boys and girls." (jacket blurb)