Pitt Roxane (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Included. THE COURAGE OF FEAR, PITT, ROXANE, DUELL, SLOAN AND PEARCE, NY, 1957, 242P, hc w/dj, dj bumped/scuffed/shelf wear/small tears, boards bumped/scuffed, text clean, solid binding---2.75.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. We found a few lines underlined in pen there may be more. The dust jacket is in a protective cover. Price clipped. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

Paperback. Condition: Poor. Poor: very substantial folding, marks or wear to covers or other defects but is in readable condition and not falling apart.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. British Spy Extraordinary - her own story.Top and bottom of boards show shelf wear and foxing pages are slight discolored; DJ shows foxing inside and on back,DJ also has damp stains inside front and back and on inside spine, else G/G.

Good plus or better, light general wear Cloth Lightly worn jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, stated. Pitt recounts here her experiences as a British spy during World War II. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends lightly bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $3.95); edgeworn at spine ends and corners; some discoloration to the back panel. Brodart protected.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. A VG+ copy in a Good dust jacket. The red boards are dust soiled. Mild foxing to the endpapers. The dust jacket has ru bbing to the folds and spine edges. Chips at the corners. Chipping/fra ying at the head and heel of the spine. Dust soiling to the rear panel .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good- dust. First Edition. The British spy's own story. ; 8vo; 242 pages.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Courage Of Fear. Book.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition, hardcover. 183 pages. About very good, binding a little soft from reading, hint of a spot on rear endpaper, in a very good or better, price-clipped dust jacket (in fresh mylar protector), overall a clean copy.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, black cloth lettered gilt to spine, light foxing to the closed page edges else a very good tightly bound copy in a price clipped and chipped dust wrapper, the text is free of markings, 242pp. An autobiographical account of 'one of the most resourceful British Secret Service Agents in the Last War', 'the bravest woman I ever met' says Naomi Jacobs, and from the foreword, no one less that Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart enthuses about the 'stamp of truth on every page'. Miss Pitt was certainly resourceful since the work is a complete fabrication which she managed to sell to two different publishers using different titles. Her mother and sister were not murdered by the Gestapo and far from using her exquisite sexual charm behind enemy lines to lure unsuspecting Nazi Generals, she never actually left England during the War. Still, a cracking read!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Corner unclipped, Some light wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges a little creased, underjacket in good condition, some light wear to edges and corners, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, inscription to a previous owner on front end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. (1978). 169pp. Near fine book in VG+ jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Promotional leaflet laid in. Jacket is sunned and edges are a little creased. Page block is lightly blemished. Small marks to REP and rear pastedown. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Condition: Good. Wear at edges and corners of dust jacket and hard board. Some storage marks and scratches to dust jacket. Foxing to text blocks. Text and pages excellent.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated FIrst Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear.

Rilegato. Condition: in ottime condizioni. senza sovraccoperta. Collana Il cammeo, 117. Traduzione di Elsa Pelitti. Tela editoriale. Manca sopraccoperta. Formato in.16 (12x19 cm). Pagg. 313, 4. Lieve ingiallimento. Ottimo stato.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st ed. 242p. British secret service agent in Paris in WW II. Rubber stamps on end papers. Otherwise Near Fine/Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of the principal agents of WW2 ; dust wrapper not price clipped and has a small amount of edge wear on top of spine ; no inscriptions.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 22cm. VG h/c in like art DJ with slight chips and tears. Embossed dealer stamp FFEP.Few foxing spots page edges. 242 pages, B/w frontispiece The author was a secret agent in WWII, working among German military officers to gain information for the Allies, but always in peril of discovery. Writer Naomi Jacob described her as the bravest woman she had met.

Broché. Broché in-12, couverture illustrée avec son bandeau, édition originale, rousseurs sur tranches, sur couverture et in-texto, bon état Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.

284 pp. Rústica. Buen estado. Idioma: francés.

Condition: good, fair. First American Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 242, DJ worn, soiled, and edges frayed and chipped, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Foreword by Robert Bruce Lockhart. An account of the experiences of Roxane Pitt, a principal woman Secret Service agent in France and Italy.

Condition: good, fair. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 242, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and small pieces missing, stamp on front endpaper. Foreword by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. An account of the experiences of Roxane Pitt, a principal woman Secret Service agent in France and Italy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pitt, Roxane. The courage of fear. London: Rider and Company, 1956. Proof copy, with the 'Foreword' page titled but empty. Paperback, Good. Orange card covers with slight damage to base of spine. Binding strong. ix, 242pp. Mild foxing to edges of page block. Contents clean and bright. "Roxane Pitt has been widely read and widely quoted thanks to her books about her activities during the Second World War. Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart wrote in his foreword, "I nearly always refuse to write prefaces for books. On this occasion I do so because this book bears the stamp of truth on every page and becasue I think it will move others as it moved me." Pitt's fiction is still often taken as fact, as can be seen in the 1992 academic anthology Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture edited by M. Paul Holsinger and Mary Anne Schofield. Co-editor Schofield, in an essay ironically entitled "Telling the Truth: Women Spy Narratives of the Second World War", equally ironically notes: Of all the stories of female spies told by women, Roxanne (sic) Pitt's account, The Courage of Fear, is the closest to the proverbial one that everyone thinks is the "true" spy account. It clearly defines the use and misuse of sex in the field . as well as "romance"; indeed, her account is dogged by masculine advances that she does not want and does not understand. Ultimately, she uses romance as one of her many covers. And yet, despite the sexual overtones, her entire account is written to expose, rather than glorify, the glamour of spying. Nigel West, in The Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage (aka The A to Z of Sexspionage, 2009) identifies Pitt's first book as an early example of fabricated tales mixing seduction and espionage. Plenty of women have been willing to write books in which they invented espionage adventures during World War II for themselves. Elizabeth Denham started the genre with I Looked Right in 1956, describing her infiltration into Nazi-occupied France, and was followed by Roxane Pitt, who wrote The Courage of Fear in 1957 and Operation Double Life in 1975, recalling her clandestine assignments in Italy. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.