Espionage from Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Octavo (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, involving not only sex but also....nuclear weapons. The book includes… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 155 mm), 455, [1] pages, in red and black boards, title to spine (hard cover). Two friends, both spies during the Cold War, get together again to work against the American invasion of Iraq. Or so they're led to believe by a… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1973. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Octavo (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 (hard cover). A young British agent is assigned to trail a cold-blooded Russian "diplomat." Then things start to… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, Inc., 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (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 (hard cover). American journalists learn a secret about the head of the dreaded security police in a European people's democracy. They head for the border town… Read more about this item

Small Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 inches; 267 x 205 mm), [12 pages] in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Transcript of a speech by William J. Casey (1913-1987), accepting the William J. Donovan Award from the Veterans of the Office of Strategic Services. Casey had been chief of secret intelligence for the European theatre of operations during World War II. This award… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo (7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 185 x 120 mm), 247, [3] pages, gray quarter cloth over black boards, in an unclipped, photo-illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). Communist agent arrives in the U.S. to persuade a scientist to defect to the Soviet Union. He also gets involved with some American… Read more about this item

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 Robert P. Hanssen, who sold classified information to the… Read more about this item

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, pp. viii, 378. Near Fine with some minor soiling… Read more about this item

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. The author strongly believed that Queen Elizabeth's art adviser, Anthony Blunt, was the "Fourth Man" in the Cambridge spy ring. But, apparently fearing a libel suit, he referred to Blunt… Read more about this item

Octavo, 288 pages, in an illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). 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. If anyone can unravel a spy case,… Read more about this item

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 their stuff. David Murphy was chief of the… Read more about this item