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Published by Penguin (Non-Classics), 1986
ISBN 10: 0140068503ISBN 13: 9780140068504
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good.
Published by Arrow, 2008
ISBN 10: 0099519607ISBN 13: 9780099519607
Seller: Amazing Books Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good. Sturdy copy, unmarked text. Cover shows moderate wear with fading and bumping at edges and corners. Spine is creased. AKL.
Published by Godfrey Cave Associates Ltd, 1995
ISBN 10: 1854710117ISBN 13: 9781854710116
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint.
Published by New York: Permabooks / Permabook / Perma # P291 1st Printing, 1954
Seller: John McCormick, Mississauga, ON, Canada
First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Richard Powers (front cover). Additional Authors: Judith Merril, Richard Matheson, Poul Anderson, Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins), Katherine MacLean, Wilmar H. Shiras, Aldous Huxley, Stephen Vincent Benet (illustrator). ----------vintage paperback. Likely produced for the Canadian market, as it has a 39¢ cover price, vs. the usual 35¢ US price (no internal indication that this is a Canadian printing). An excellent 356-page science fiction anthology, reprinting still classic stories about children (some of them not nice at all). Faint spine crease, tiny split to spine bottom, edgewear, at least a VG copy.
Published by Bantam, 2008
ISBN 10: 0553385909ISBN 13: 9780553385908
Seller: Amazing Books Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Clean, sturdy paperback. Light edge-wear. WF.
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Published by Granada, London, 1984
ISBN 10: 0246122080ISBN 13: 9780246122087
Seller: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Book
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Trade paperback, second printing thus, 256 pages; spine creased and slightly slanted, other tiny traces of shelf wear, otherwise gently used, not abused, very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listing for The Headline Book of Spy Fiction, and for something completely different, the exceptionally scarce The New Black Mask Quarterly Number 8 [No VIII, Eight].
Published by Bloomsbury Books, London, 1991
ISBN 10: 1854710117ISBN 13: 9781854710116
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Printing - First Thus. 715 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Glossy pictorial boards matching the dustjacket. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a crease on the spine; no interior markings. This collection contains four complete novels: Introduction by Hugh Greene; The Great Tontine by Hawley Smart; The Rome Express by Major Arthur Griffiths; In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis; and The Beetle by Richard Marsh. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by London: Hutchinson (2007), 2007
Seller: BOOK NOW, BENDIGO, VIC, Australia
220x140: 248pp. Textured papered boards (Hardback) in dust jacket, Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 0 091 92061 6 , 9780 091 92061 6 , Weight: 400g. .
Published by Folio Society, London, 2006
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle. (illustrator). First Edition Thus; First Printing. Still stiff to open and about new, in near fine brown slipcase. ; 261 pages.
Published by The Folio Society, London, UK, 2006
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Slipcase/No Dustjacket. Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle (illustrator). Fifth Printing. 261 pages. Introduction by Stella Rimington. No slipcase or dustjacket. Very clean darkblue hardback binding. Pages as new. B&W plates & maps.
The great tontine. The Rome express. In the fog. The beetle. Penguin books 1984. 715 pages. Paper back.[#187990].
Published by London, The Folio Society 2007., 2007
First Edition
Second printing of this edition, first published the year before. Hardcover. Original teal-blue cloth, spine lettered in white, and front panel lettered and illustrated in colour. Lacks slipcase, o/w fine. Spy stories, illustrated for this edition in b/w by Nick Hardcastle. With an introduction by Stella Rimington, but also include Graham Greene's introduction to the first edition of 1957.
Published by The Folio Society, London, 2006
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Nick Hardcastle; (illustrator). First Printing - First Thus. (xxi) 261 pp. Blue cloth decorated in black, brown and white on the front panel; lettered in white on the spine; headband; presented in a brown slipcase. Very lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Introduction by Stella Rimington; Introduction by Graham Greene; A Mission Is Proposed by John Buchan; Directive to Colonel Zabotin - anonymous; A Damned Good Story by W. Somerset Maugham; A Late Call at the German Embassy by L. C. Moyzisch; The Value of Hide and Seek by Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Take a Hard Boiled Egg by Bernard Newman; Example of Invisible Writing - anonymous; Tricked by William Le Queux; A Whip of the Circassian Sort by T. E. Lawrence; A Nasty Scratch by William Le Queux; A Spy Advertises by Herbert Greene; A Bathroom at the Paris Ritz by Dennis Wheatley; A Trussed Fowl by William Le Queux; In the Back of the Head by Vladimir Petrov; A Little Black Beret by Peter Fleming; At the Social Club by George Griffith; That Indeed is to Die by Fenimore Cooper; Seduced with the Old Tricks by W. H. Auden; I Spy by Graham Greene; A Segment of German Sausage by Peter Fleming; The Sad Fate of Major Andre by Richard Garnett and Anna Seward; The Police Spy by Joseph Conrad; Seven Miles from Calais by Max Pemberton; A Twinge by William Le Queux; A Narrow Squeak by Sir Paul Dukes; A Cross Country Run by Belle Boyd; Good Hunting by Maurice Paleologue; Foreign Travel by Ian Fleming and Walter Schellenberg; Seex Fat English Pigs by Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry; The Case of the Dixon Torpedo by Arthur Morrison; The Adventures of Bonaparte by Compton Mackenzie; Colette and Mata Hari by Colette; The Man in the Soft Cap by Edmund Blunden; A Meet in the Shires by William Le Queux; The Spies' March 1913 by Rudyard Kipling; A Royal Spy by Alan H. Burgoyne; Schnitzel alias Jones by Richard Harding Davis; How it Strikes a Contomporary by Robert Browning; Could Not Believe His Eyes by Sir Robert Baden-Powell; None Other Than by William Le Queux; The Waiters' Union by E. Phillips Oppenheim; Royal Gifts by William Le Queux; A Well Appointed Office by Walter Schellenberg; Blanc de Blanc Brut 1943 by Ian Fleming; A Certificate from General Washington by Fenimore Cooper; Prison Reading by R. H. Bruce Lockhart; Planning a Novel by Eric Ambler; Love by Major Andre; Queer People by Sir Basil Thomson; The Lawrences by Hugh Kingsmill; Operation Goethe by Thomas Mann; What the Soldier Said by William Blake; Coleridge and Wordsworth Suspects by S. T. Coleridge; The Gendarme and the Painter by Paul Gaughin; A Lawyer from Kent by Walter Schellenberg; The Amorous Duchess by Maurice Paleologue; Postscript to Dreyfus by Guy Chapman; Beneath the Open Windows by Thomas Hardy; The Ordinary Route by Maurice Paleologue; Equipment for Tibet by Lieutenant Colonel F. M. Bailey; Vodka with Pepper by Ian Fleming; Dichlorethyl Sulphide by R. L. Green; Butterfly Hunting in Dalmatia by Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Carrier Pigeons by H. R. Berndorff; A Visit to the Lavatory by R. H. Bruce Lockhart; Top People Read The Times by William Le Queux; A Plant by Admiral Sir William James; The German Governess; The Simplest Thing in the World; and An Early Microphone by Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry; The Hansom Cab Approach by George Griffith; and Calloway's Code by O. Henry; followed by Epilogue by Hugh Greene. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by The Folio Society, London, 2006
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcastle, Nick. (illustrator). First Folio Society Edition. xxi, 261pp, bibliography, bw ills. Or decorative cloth in slipcase. Book as new, slipcase stained on one panel. Includes work by Buchan, Maugham, Baden-Powell, TE Lawrence, Whealtley, Petrov and many others. Size: 8vo.
Published by The Folio Society, London, 2006
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase. First Edition, Thus. 8vo., 261pp. Beautiful Unread First Printing of this Folio Edition o fthis classic anthology. Square, tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. Fine publisher's slipcase. Introduction by Stella Rimington. Illustrated by Nick Handcastle. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.
Published by The Folio Society, London, England, 2007
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Nick Hardcastle (illustrator). second printing of the Folio edition; true first edition was published in 1957 by Rupert Hart-Davies; dark blue pictorial publisher's cloth; 261 pages; illustrations by Hardcastle throughout; in publisher's fine brown slip case. slip case.
Hardback. Hardback. 261pp. Reprint. Introduction by Stella Rimington. Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle. Includes pieces by John Buchan, Baden-Powell, T. E. Lawrence, Dennis Wheatley, Fenimore Cooper, W. H. Auden, Joseph Conrad, Ian Fleming, Arthur Morrison, Rudyard Kipling and many others. Illustrated cloth binding is very clean and neat. Slipcase is slightly and unevenly faded and has a few small marks to both front and back. Near fine, bright copy in good+ slipcase Near fine, bright copy in good+ slipcase.
Hardback. Hardback. 261pp. Reprint. Introduction by Stella Rimington. Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle. Includes pieces by John Buchan, Baden-Powell, T. E. Lawrence, Dennis Wheatley, Fenimore Cooper, W. H. Auden, Joseph Conrad, Ian Fleming, Arthur Morrison, Rudyard Kipling and many others.k Illustrated cloth binding is very clean, bright and neat. Slipcase is has some tiny, faint marks near the open edge. Near fine, bright copy in very good slipcase Near fine, bright copy in very good slipcase.
Published by LONDON FOLIO SOCIETY, 2006
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
FINE COPY IN FINE SLIPCASE. INTRODUCTION BY STELLA RIMINGTON, ILLUSTRATED BY NICK HARDCASTLE. NEAT NAME AND DATE IN INK ON FEP.
Published by Cassell, London, 1937
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition, octavo, red cloth, no dust wrapper, sunning to spine, trivial bleaching to front edges of front and rear covers, foxing to outer leaves otherwise internally clean and bright, x plus 630 pages including index. 43 essays including: W. H. Auden on Pope; Graham Greene on Fielding and Sterne; Leonard Woolf on Tom Paine; Edwin Muir on Walter Scott; Stephen Spender on Keats and Shelley; T. S. Eliot on Byron. [QP].
Published by The Bodley Head, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0370020227ISBN 13: 9780370020228
Seller: Mad Hatter Books, Auckland, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First Thus. dj (price clipped) is a little rubbed on edges, spine tips & top corners strengthened on reverse with small strips of brown tape and protective plastic cover has been fixed to reverse with small pieces of tape, bright colour pictorial boards (as dj) a little rubbed on edges, small corner cut off top of front flyleaf, illustrated in colour throughout by EDWARD ARDIZZONE, 2 pages have light marks on the lower edges otherwise a lovely clean copy. oblong 4to, 48pp.
Published by The Bodley Head, London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0370020219ISBN 13: 9780370020211
Seller: Mad Hatter Books, Auckland, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First Thus. Hardback: dj (price clipped), a little rubbed on edges, one tear at base of spine, front flap creased, colour pictorial boards, spine tips and lower edges slightly rubbed, illustrated in colour throughout by EDWARD ARDIZZONE, inscription on flyleaf, page edges lightly finger creased, else vg. oblong 4to, 48pp.
Published by The Bodley Head, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0370020235ISBN 13: 9780370020235
Seller: Mad Hatter Books, Auckland, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First Thus. dj (price clipped) a little worn at spine tips, short tear at lower rear, a little rubbed on edges of jacket and colour pictorial boards, illustrated in colour throughout by EDWARD ARDIZZONE, light vertical crease on first 2 pages, some light internal foxing, vg. oblong 4to, 48pp.
Published by Viking, [New york], 1984
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. The Great Tontine by Hawley Smart; The Rome Express by Major Arthur Griffiths; In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis; and The Beetle by Richard Marsh. With an introduction by Hugh Greene; 8vo; $15.00.
Published by Folio Society, London, 2006
Seller: Soin2Books, Kidderminster, WORCS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Nick Hardcastle (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Thus edition, first printing. A fine, tight, clean book with just a crease to top corner of introduction page in a near fine slipcase with just slight fading to one side. Not ex-library. No labels, names, notes or inscriptions. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, United Kingdom, 1957
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. British edition, second printing, 1957 (same year as first printing). An anthology edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene. Various contributors. Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, a few small (approx. 1cm) tears, a little patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), the odd crease/rub to edges, patchy browning (including to spine), a few small marks, little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, minor foxing, little pushing/bumping to corners, browning/odd small mark/spots of foxing to reverse (white side), patchy creasing/browning/rubbing to front/back inner flaps and is in only good condition. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with a hint of pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing/fading to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages bit tanned. Odd small mark/mild foxing to top edge of pages. Large gift bookplate inside front board. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges and bottoms. Previous owner's large bookplate stuck to front end-paper. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Published by London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957., 1957
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
First Edition
First edition. An anthology. Introduction by Graham Green. 256 pp. Contributors include Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Belle Boyd, Major Andre, Ian Fleming, William Blake, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann. Poems by Browning, Kipling and Auden. B/w illustrations in text. Some foxing on prelims, otherwise very clean copy. Deep blue cloth boards. Silver lettering on spine. Overall condition VG+ in VG price-clipped dust wrapper.
Published by London: Four Square, 1962, 1965, 1965
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
[Spy Anthology] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, and second reprint with new cover art, bibliographer's copies. Octavo, pp.192. Publisher's pictorial softcovers. Contents toned as expected, light wear to covers, sticker pull on reprint. very good. The first printing of the british softcover, together with an early reprint with new cover design either by or after Raymond Hawkey, the designed of the famous poan covers for ian Fleming's James bond paperbacks. An intriguing mix of factual and fictional pieces, including contributions from Baden-Powell, Le Queux, T.E. Lawrence, Bruce Lockhart, Ian and Peter Fleming, Kipling, Somerset Maugham, John Buchan, Fenimore Cooper, Dennis Wheatley, Joseph Conrad, Eric Ambler, Thomas Hardy and E. Phillips Oppenheim. From the Jon Gilbert collection (pencil ownership within). Gilbert p.45, 115, 186, 545, 643-4.
Published by London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957, 1957
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Spy Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth (at least three colours were used), illustrated dust-wrapper. No inscriptions. Very good indeed, in similar price clipped jacket with sunned spine (as usual). An intriguing mix of factual and fictional pieces, including contributions from Baden-Powell, Le Queux, T.E. Lawrence, Bruce Lockhart, Ian and Peter Fleming, Kipling, Somerset Maugham, John Buchan, Fenimore Cooper, Dennis Wheatley, Joseph Conrad, Eric Ambler, Thomas Hardy and E. Phillips Oppenheim. Gilbert p.45, 115, 186, 545, 643-4.
Published by London: Folio Society, 2006, 2006
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Spy Anthology] FIRST EDITION THUS, first printing. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.261; [1], blank; [1], order form; [1], blank. With illustrations by Nick Hardcastle. Publisher's decorated blue cloth, tan endpapers, in tan slipcase ('Jack' bulldog paperweight not included). Fine throughout. An intriguing mix of factual and fictional pieces, including contributions from Baden-Powell, Le Queux, T.E. Lawrence, Bruce Lockhart, Ian and Peter Fleming, Kipling, Somerset Maugham, John Buchan, Fenimore Cooper, Dennis Wheatley, Joseph Conrad, Eric Ambler, Thomas Hardy and E. Phillips Oppenheim. This copy is from the comprehensive James Bond collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled note and ownership. This is the first edition to feature the introduction by Dame Stella Rimington, thriller writer and first female Director General of the British Security Service [MI5]. Gilbert p.45, 115, 186, 545, 643-4.