War, Invasion & Spy
London, Peter Davies, 1936.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
An unusually good example of Lewis's classic of aviation. Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just 17, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of World War I, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as "a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet." In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war, as we follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme, to his pioneering defense of London against deadly nighttime raids.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Blackie, 1937.
First edition. 8vo. Original grey cloth. Dust-jacket.
A sci-fi aviation thriller, uncommon in jacket.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1963.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original red boards with black 'rubber stamp' to upper cover. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A good first edition of the second 'Harry Palmer' spy novel (although the character is never named in the books), that began with The IPCRESS File (1962).
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Gifford, 1946.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
German spies operating from a quiet English village face local resistance and counter-espionage. Willett is a Hubin-listed author.
War, Invasion & Spy
Translated by John Colville
London, Duckworth, 1938.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
"Here is the first great novel of the Spanish Civil War." (jacket blurb).
War, Invasion & Spy
A story of the Scarlet Pimpernel
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1913].
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth with inset illustration. Dust-jacket.
The elusive Pimpernel returns for another swashbuckling adventure in El Dorado. Rare in jacket.
War, Invasion & Spy
London & New York, John Lane, 1919.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket.
A powerful fictional study on the impact of shell-shock.
![Len Deighton, [The Harry Palmer quartet], 4 vol., first editions, 1962-66.](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/85928-300x300.jpg)
![Alternative view of Deighton (Len) [The Harry Palmer quartet].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/85928_2-300x400.jpg)
War, Invasion & Spy
Comprising: The IPCRESS File; Horse Under Water [with original crossword slip]; Funeral in Berlin; Billion-Dollar Brain
London, Hodder & Stoughton; Jonathan Cape, 1962-66.
First editions, first impressions. 4 vol. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jackets, all correctly priced.
An unusually good set of the first quartet of Deighton's "Harry Palmer" novels (although the character is never actually named in the books); increasingly difficult to find as a set and in comparable condition, here with the original crossword slip in the second book as called for. The stories' popularity received an additional bolstering from the three film versions made starring Michael Caine, and have enjoyed ongoing success for fans of spy fiction, not least as a counterpoint to Fleming's James Bond novels.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Gifford, 1938.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An uncommon first edition, recounting one British woman's bravery in the face of the Spanish Civil War.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hutchinson, 1942.
First edition. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
A signed & inscribed first edition of Wheatley's wartime espionage classic, set against the background of Vichy France and the occupied territories in 1940.
War, Invasion & Spy
or, The British Agent
London, Heinemann, 1928.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt and with publisher's and author's device in black. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6 to spine.
A great copy, benefitting from some professional conservational work to the jacket, of the author's spy stories, based largely on his own undercover experiences in Europe & Russia. It is believed that initially there were 31 stories but 14 had to be destroyed on Churchill's orders as they were in breach of the Official Secrets Act. Many authors of spy fiction have acknowledged the importance and merit of this work over the years, including John Le Carré, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, Julian Symons and Raymond Chandler.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1935.
First trade edition. Small 4to. Original brown buckram. Dust-jacket.
The first trade edition of Lawrence's famous account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure and drama. A unique portrait of this extraordinary man and an insight into the birth of the Arab nation.
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, Jonathan Cape, 1963.
First edition. Small 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. Dust-jacket, priced 30s.
An attractive first edition of Bond-creator Fleming's adventure-charged visit to the world's most exciting, exotic and sinful cities. Includes snapshots of Hong Kong, Tokyo, Honolulu, Las Vegas, New York and Monte Carlo.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Pan, 1967.
First Pan edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, priced 3/6.
Set apart from the other books in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, The Spy Who Loved Me is told from the perspective of a femme fatale in the making, Vivienne Michel.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Pan Books, 1955.
First reprint of the first paperback edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
The first paperback edition of Fleming's first James Bond book, the blonde Bond adorning the cover seemingly anticipating Daniel Craig's eventual adoption of the role...
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Pan Books, 1963.
First paperback edition. 8vo. Original wrappers.
The first paperback edition of Fleming's ninth James Bond book.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hutchinson, 1940.
First edition. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Inscribed by the author on the title-page, "For J.W. Hughes With very best wishes from his friend Dennis Wheatley".
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hutchinson, 1937.
First edition. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Publisher's advertisements. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Inscribed by the author on the title-page, "To Mr W. Green with the best of good wishes from Dennis Wheatley".
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hutchinson, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Publisher's advertisements dated 'Autumn 1933' at end. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Following the misfortunes of an aristocratic German family after the first World War. Uncommon.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1917.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale red cloth stamped in black. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
An early collection of war tales by the original 'Sapper', extremely uncommon in the original jacket.
War, Invasion & Spy
New York, Dutton, 1967.
First US edition. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Dust-jacket, priced $3.95.
The first US edition of the first of Diment's spy novels featuring Philip McAlpine, whom critic Anthony Boucher described as "an agent who smokes hashish, leads a highly active sex life, kills vividly, uses (or even coins) the latest London slang and still seems a perfectly real (and even oddly likeable) young man rather than a reflected Bond image.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Michael Joseph, 1968.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.
The second of Diment's spy novels featuring Philip McAlpine, whom critic Anthony Boucher described as "an agent who smokes hashish, leads a highly active sex life, kills vividly, uses (or even coins) the latest London slang and still seems a perfectly real (and even oddly likeable) young man rather than a reflected Bond image. The jacket artwork seemingly takes inspiration from Richard Chopping's James Bond jackets.
![The Fifth Gloucester Gazette, A chronicle, serious and humorous, of the Battalion while serving with the British Expeditionary Force, [1923]](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/85496-300x300.jpg)
![Alternative view of [Helm (George F., editor)] The Fifth Gloucester Gazette](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/85496_2-300x400.jpg)
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
A Yankee Hobo Soldier of the Queen
New York, Minton, Balch & Company, 1929.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth lettered in red. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The autobiography of an American 'hobo' who served with the British Mounted Police and cavalry during the Boer War.
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
London, Alston Rivers, [1905].
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth with red zigzag line down upper cover and lettered in gilt.
Military fiction by Brigadier-General Arthur Frank Umfreville Green CMG DSO, a senior British Army officer in World War I and author of several publications.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Interesting, and uncommon example of alt-history fiction relating to Hitler and WW2, but in this case actually written and published coeval to the time of the events. Rare in jacket.
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)
War, Invasion & Spy
Leonard (Charles L., pseud. Mary Violet Heberden) Sinister Shelter
London, Museum Press, 1951.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth with silver lettering and red skull motif to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 9/6.
Intrigue split across the US, Italy and Argentina in this rare spy thriller.
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, 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.
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, 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
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.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1937.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Spy thriller in great Bip Pares jacket; Mark Humberstone and a man called Cheng bequeath a marvellous wireless technology to the shady espionage organisation the Council of Seven.
![Alternative view of Kauffer (E. McKnight, jacket artist); Onions ([George] Oliver) Peace in Our Time](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/85004_2-300x400.jpg)
London, Chapman & Hall, 1923.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Stunning jacket artwork by one of the greatest 20th century jacket artists, E. McKnight Kauffer. Given the condition of the book compared to the jacket we have to presume this is either a marriage or a case of the book and the jacket being kept apart, with the jacket filed away safely...
![Alternative view of Fairlie (Gerard) and 'Sapper' [pseud. H.C. McNeile]. Bulldog Drummond on Dartmoor](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/84903_2-300x400.jpg)
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
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, 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, Martin Secker, October 1931.
First English edition, second printing. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Wonderful jacket artwork on this story of a political assassin during the few days before the shooting of a Minister of State.