Introduction by M D Holmes (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Phoenix, AZ: Falcon Press, 1987. FIRST PRINTING - Evidently Unread. Touch of age, light wrap rubbing still FINE (see scan). First Edition/First Printing. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo size - over 8¼" tall.

Decorated Blue Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition Thus. Xii, 340,(I). Blue Cloth, Color Illustration Mounted On Front Cover. Illustrated Endpapers. Color And B/W Plates. Apparent First Winston Printing Thus, No Additional Printing Dates Or Codes, Some Color Plates Besides The Frontispiece. A Bright, Clean, Near Fine Copy Without Any Marks Or Damage, Just A Trace Of Wear. Jacket Has Some Wear, 1/8" To 1/4" Chips At Corners, Some Tiny Chips At Top Of Spine, And An Oval 1/2" Chip On Rear Panel. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Lovely copy. No wear to the binding. No slope, no twist, no distortion from reading or improper shelving. The color pastedown on the front cover showing a three masted whaler and an oared sloop shows no scratches, no edge wear.Pages are tight clean with no marks. There is a gift presentation for perfect attendance at junior church services on the verso of the color frontispiece. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. The dust jacket shows light wear, no sun fading. DJ in an archival protector. This is a volume in the John C. Winston " The Children's Bookshelf." Abridged: lacking all of Melville's zoological details about whales/. Anton Otto Fischer (illustrator).…

First printing. Octavo; hardcover; blue buckram boards with illustrated upper board and gilt spine-titling; 215pp., with monochrome portrait frontispiece and 12pp. of photographic plates similar. Fine in like slightly rubbed slip-case. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. The Double Cross System is not the only document to describe double agents and deception. It is simply the best. Masterman gives us a world of stratagems, inhabited by characters like SNOW, ZIGZAG and TRICYCLE. They were known only by these cover names and in them they lived and operated. Nuance became all. Even the methods of communication between the agent and the enemy, whether by wireless, by secret writing, or by personal contact in neutral countries, required empathy on the part of the case officers and planners. The details of a man's wireless style, for example, the warning signals, the very rhythm of the key in sending messages must be mastered so that if the agent should die or for one reason or another be removed, a substitution could be made but not recognised. 'A game played with dynamite in which those who couldn't play were executed . Should on no account be missed by anyone who enjoys a good thriller.' - Anthony Price.…