Seth Ronald Robert Chartham Pseudonym (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Bob Schulz (illustrator). 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; First US paperback edition. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is some light slanting to the spine of the book, along with some beginning creasing. The text pages are clean and bright. "Appointed Professor of Literature at the University of Tallinn, Estonia, Seth returned to London at the start of World War II, joining the BBC and helping to start the Monitoring Intelligence Bureau. In 1941 he was commissioned into the Royal Air Force and in 1942 joined the Special Operations Executive. Parachuted into Estonia, he was captured by and later defected to the Germans. He was trained by the Sicherheitsdienst (the SS intelligence agency) as an agent for a mission to Britain. He spent most of the rest of the war as an informer in the Oflag 79 prisoner-of-war camp, but in April 1945 was entrusted with a message of peace by Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS) , which he carried to London via Switzerland. " (from Wikipedia).

Condition: Good. First edition ex library hard back binding in publisher's original cinnamon cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains portrait frontispiece, 223 pp. Usual stamps and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORTH AFRICA [Egypt].