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  • DARK VOYAGE. by Furst, Alan.
    Furst, Alan.
    DARK VOYAGE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - World War II adventure story of a Dutch tramp freighter whose captain is secretly working for the intelligence division of the British Royal Navy. 256 pp. ISBN: 1400060184.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 56814
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  • THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT. by Furst, Alan.
    Furst, Alan.
    THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Espionage novel set in the world of the Italian resistance to Mussolini, those who had fled to Paris and fought fascism with their typewriters. Maps. 272 pp. ISBN: 1400060192.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.).

    Book ID: 55917
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  • MISSION TO PARIS. by Furst, Alan.
    Furst, Alan.
    MISSION TO PARIS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical espionage novel set in 1938 in a Paris where 'political warfare' is at its peak and the money of the Germans is never spoken of - Frederic Stahl, a Hollywood film star, has become part of an informal spy service run out of the American embassy. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication on the title page. 255 pp. ISBN: 9781400069484.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, but one corner is very slightly bumped.)

    Book ID: 54173
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  • THE DEVIL IN AMBER: A "Shocker." by Gatiss, Mark.
    Gatiss, Mark.
    THE DEVIL IN AMBER: A "Shocker."

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    London: Simon & Schuster, (2006.). Second mystery featuring Lucifer Box, his Majesty's (King Bertie) most daring - and dissolute - secret agent. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-57103.

    Condition: Very good+ (usual light toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 50552
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  • GAME WITHOUT RULES. by Gilbert, Michael.
    Gilbert, Michael.
    GAME WITHOUT RULES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eleven interlinked short stories featuring two unusual "spy catchers" - former M13 operatives Calder and Behrens now working for JSSIC(E) (the External Branch of the Joint Services Standing Intelligence Committee.) Both men were very quiet, neighbors in a small town in Kent where Daniel Joseph Calder lived with a golden deerhound named Rasselas, and John Calder indulged in his avocation of bee-keeping - and both sometimes silently disappeared for a while. The true first edition of this Queen's Quorum title (preceding the UK edition). Dust jacket praise from such diverse authors as Eudora Welty and Rex Stout. 246 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Spina.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (blank bookplate on front endpaper, a bit of wear to the ends of the dj spine, original price of $4.95 on dj flap)

    Book ID: 78944
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  • THE JUPITER CRISIS. by Harrington, William.
    Harrington, William.
    THE JUPITER CRISIS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: David McKay, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set at the peak of the Cold War, this is a novel of international intrigue which begins when a US spy satellite is captured by the Russians. 345 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (a tidemark on the front endpaper, not affecting the rest of the book, overall rubbing and edgewear to the dj, original price of 6.95 still present.)

    Book ID: 83497
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  • CRY SPY. by Hood, William.
    Hood, William.
    CRY SPY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Glasnot is dead, and Alan Trosper steps back into the world of counterespionage when his friend, Peter Gandy, is murdered. A novel about the world of espionage and counterespionage by an author who spent 30 years in that world. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-393026396.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant)

    Book ID: 76967
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  • POINT BLANK. by Horowitz, Anthony.
    Horowitz, Anthony.
    POINT BLANK.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format) for first US printing.

    New York: Philomel Books, (2002). First edition - A young adult thriller - an Alex Rider adventure. "Fourteen year old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6 investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps." 215 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 71886
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  • AI! PEDRITO! When Intelligence Goes Wrong. by Hubbard, L. Ron and Kevin J. Anderson.
    Hubbard, L. Ron and Kevin J. Anderson.
    AI! PEDRITO! When Intelligence Goes Wrong.

    Edition: First printing.

    Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novelization by Kevin Anderson of a short story by L. Ron Hubbard. - a "rollicking adventure through the world of spies and double spies." 370 pp. ISBN: 1-573181218.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 67477
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  • TANGO. by Judd, William ( pseudonym of Alan Edwin Petty)
    Judd, William ( pseudonym of Alan Edwin Petty)
    TANGO.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Summit Books, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A satirical novel in which a sedate, overweight Englishman is sent to a South American country to run a moribund bookstore - and winds up being recruited into the British Special Information Service... While this might be satire, the author (like Le Carre) worked for the Briitsh Foreign Office and knows what he is writing about. Judd named as one of the Best Young British Novelists by Granta Magazine. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-671707108.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 69400
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  • Kane, Harnett T.
    THE SMILING REBEL.

    Edition: First printing.

    Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1955. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel based on the life of Belle Boyd, the Civil War spy. SIGNED by the author with the words "Best wishes.

    Condition: Near fine in gray cloth with red lettering on the spine. Inscription. Flaps and back cover of dj tipped into rear of book.

    Book ID: 13800
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  • LEAVING BERLIN. by Kanon, Joseph.
    Kanon, Joseph.
    LEAVING BERLIN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2015). First edition - A complex and literate thriller by this Edgar award winning writer, set in post World War II East Berlin, in 1949. A Jewish writer fled the Nazis to the US, but now, with the beginning of McCarthy's and HUAC's rise to power, he is threatened with deportation unless he agrees to return to Berlin as a spy for the CIA. A New York Times Notable Book, named one of the best books of 2015 by both NPR and the Wall St, Journal. 371 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 72703
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  • THE FORWARDING AGENT. by Kark, Austen.
    Kark, Austen.
    THE FORWARDING AGENT.

    Edition: First edition.

    London: Toby Press, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - ".a contemporary spy novel . . . The narrator-hero, Ben Bolton, alias David Ditchling, an ex-marine officer, is in Cairo completing some private business when by chance he is caught up in a terrorist attack on a bus-load of Armenian tourists. Standing bes ide an elderly Armenian woman, he instinctively throws himself down on top of her to protect her from the hail of bullets. He saves her life but is himself wounded" (P. D. James) 221 pp. ISBN: 1902881028.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards with a blue cloth spine, no dust jacket, as issued (name on half title page, corners slightly bumped)

    Book ID: 64923
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  • POISONER IN CHIEF: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. by Kinzer, Stephen,
    Kinzer, Stephen,
    POISONER IN CHIEF: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the man who oversaw the CIAs secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and 60s, a story which was only to be pieced together after Gottlieb's death. "As the head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace - including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. His experiments spread LSD across the United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture. For years he was the chief supplier of spy tools used by CIA officers around the world." Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. 354 pp. ISBN: 978-1250140432.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86358
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  • A LITTLE WHITE DEATH. by Lawton, John.
    Lawton, John.
    A LITTLE WHITE DEATH.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, a thriller featuring Inspector Troy and set in London in 1963, the year of the Profumo scandal, Kim Philby's defection and Harold Macmillan's resignation. Fighting ill-health (the white death" of tuberculosis), Troy finds his past catching up with him. Historical note. 440 pp. ISBN: 0-297841238.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 79228
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  • CALL FOR THE DEAD. by Le Carre, John.
    Le Carre, John.
    CALL FOR THE DEAD.

    Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).

    New York: Walker, (1962) dj. Hardcover - Le Carre's first novel, which introduced spy George Smiley. 128 pp.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83678
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  • OUR GAME. by Le Carre, John
    Le Carre, John
    OUR GAME.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in post-cold war Europe. "Tim Cramner and Larry Pettifer, double agents and childhood chums, have been left with unfulfilled agendas at the end of the Cold War: Tim's is to live in elegant, self-satisfied retirement with his young lover, Emma, and Larry's is to find a better cause worth dying for. Their mutual quests for self-identity comprise the heart of this artful psychological thriller." Ribbon place marker bound in. True first edition with a number line ending in 1 (reportedly only about 1000 copies were issued, primarily for the export market and for sale in airports, before they were pulled due to Le Carre's dislike of…

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    London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in post-cold war Europe. "Tim Cramner and Larry Pettifer, double agents and childhood chums, have been left with unfulfilled agendas at the end of the Cold War: Tim's is to live in elegant, self-satisfied retirement with his young lover, Emma, and Larry's is to find a better cause worth dying for. Their mutual quests for self-identity comprise the heart of this artful psychological thriller." Ribbon place marker bound in. True first edition with a number line ending in 1 (reportedly only about 1000 copies were issued, primarily for the export market and for sale in airports, before they were pulled due to Le Carre's dislike of the design of the plain gray dust jacket. 347 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-24064026x.

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    Condition: Fine in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fine first issue dust jacket. Original price of 16.95 on flap.

    Book ID: 87995
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  • OUR GAME. by Le Carre, John
    Le Carre, John
    OUR GAME.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in post-cold war Europe. "Tim Cramner and Larry Pettifer, double agents and childhood chums, have been left with unfulfilled agendas at the end of the Cold War: Tim's is to live in elegant, self-satisfied retirement with his young lover, Emma, and Larry's is to find a better cause worth dying for. Their mutual quests for self-identity comprise the heart of this artful psychological thriller." 302 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-679441891.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)

    Book ID: 87894
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  • THE SECRET PILGRIM. by Le Carre, John.
    Le Carre, John.
    THE SECRET PILGRIM.

    Edition: Later printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover - Novel set in the post-cold war changing world of espionage. 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4165-94884.

    Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (sunning to spine of dj and a small scrape).

    Book ID: 60131
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  • Le Carre, John. Foreword by P. D. James.
    CALL FOR THE DEAD: The First George Smiley Novel.

    Edition: First thus.

    New York: Walker, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A handsome re-issue of Le Carre's first novel, originally published in 1961, which introduced spy George Smiley. This edition includes a new foreword by P. D, James and an introduction by Le Carre. xvii, 151 pp. ISBN: 0-802714439.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87677
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  • PASSPORT TO PERIL. by Leasor, James.
    Leasor, James.
    PASSPORT TO PERIL.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Heinemann, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second espionage novel by this prolific writer featuring Dr. Jason Love, a GP in a Somerset, England, who somehow is always found by trouble. While in Switzerland on a ski vacation, Love first discovers a body of a man shot on the slope, and then is asked for help by the Nawab of a country high in the Himalayas on the border of China, a man with whom he had served in Burma, whose son has been partially blinded by a laser, and threatened with permanent blindness, if ransom demands are not met. Leasor and Love share many things - including owing a vintage Cord automobile and serving in Burma during World War II. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-434410136.

    Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket (toning and edgewear to the dj, rubbing on the folds)

    Book ID: 84277
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  • A WEEK OF LOVE: Being Seven Adventures of Jason Love. by Leasor, James.
    Leasor, James.
    A WEEK OF LOVE: Being Seven Adventures of Jason Love.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Heinemann, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of short stories featuring Dr. Jason Love. Seven stories in which he manages to find trouble in many places - from Sunday on the holiday island of Giglio, Monday in Portugal, Tuesday in Holland to Saturday and back to his surgery. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-434410144.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket.(usual light toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 84284
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  • Littell, Robert.
    THE AMATEUR.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. First edition - A classic espionage novel: "The Amateur is Charlie Heller, a modest man, a back-room functionary employed by the CIA. His specialty, and his private intellectual obsession, is cryptology - encoding and decoding with the aid of sophisticated computers the thousands of messages that link East and West in their continual efforts to read each otherÕs minds. But Charlie Heller is no Cold Warrior. not yet. Untangling codes for the CIA is HellerÕs way of paying the rent and of gaining access to the CIAÕs immense computer, through which he pursues his gentlemanÕs hobby: searching all of ShakespeareÕs works to find the elusive cryptogram he believes will reveal their true author." 243 pp.

    Condition: Very good in yellow printed wrappers (some spine slant and light soiling to the covers) An uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 61719
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  • THE SPY WITH HIS HEAD IN THE CLOUDS. by Lovell, Marc (pseudonym of Mark McShane)
    Lovell, Marc (pseudonym of Mark McShane)
    THE SPY WITH HIS HEAD IN THE CLOUDS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Doubleday, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Appleton Porter, the 6'7" British agent. 184 pp. Dust jacket by Peter Bauch. ISBN: 0-385-17859X.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (very faint remainder spray on bottom edge)

    Book ID: 66880
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  • THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE. by Ludlum, Robert.
    Ludlum, Robert.
    THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: World Publishing Co., (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ludlum's first novel, an espionage thriller set during World War II where a top Nazi is willing to defect - but only if the top secret Scarlatti file is released. 358 pp.

    Condition: Good only in red leatherette in a very good printed acetate dust jacket (severe toning to pages, front edge of cover and corners bumped, chip to bottom edge of dj), original price of 6.95 still present. .

    Book ID: 86340
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  • THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND. by Ludlum, Robert.
    Ludlum, Robert.
    THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: World Publishing Co., (1972.). Hardcover first edition - Ludlum's second novel, a spy thriller. Basis for the Sam Peckinpah movie of the same name. 315 pp. ISBN: 0-529045478.

    Condition: Very good (some spine slant), no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 63091
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  • MESMERIZED. by Lynds, Gayle.
    Lynds, Gayle.
    MESMERIZED.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pocket Books, (2001.) dj. SIGNED postcard, hardcover first edition - A fast paced international espionage thriller. Third novel published by Lynds under her own name. SIGNED on a promotional postcard. 419 pp. ISBN: 0-671-024078.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82587
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  • MESMERIZED. by Lynds, Gayle.
    Lynds, Gayle.
    MESMERIZED.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pocket Books, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fast paced international espionage thriller. Third novel published by Lynds under her own name. SIGNED on the title page. Promotional postcard laid in. 419 pp. ISBN: 0-671-024078.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82545
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  • THE PRISONER IN THE CASTLE: A Maggie Hope Mystery. by MacNeal, Susan Elia
    MacNeal, Susan Elia
    THE PRISONER IN THE CASTLE: A Maggie Hope Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bantam, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's 8th mystery, a thriller set during World War II. "November, 1942. World War II is raging, and former spy Maggie Hope knows too much. . . These are the reasons Maggie is isolated on a remote Scottish island, in a prison known as Killoch Castle. When one of her fellow inmates drops dead in the middle of his after-dinner drink, hes only the first. As victims fall one by one, Maggie will have to call upon all her wits and skills to escapenot just certain death . . . but certain murder." Historical note. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0399593826.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 87669
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  • THE CUTOUT. by Mathews, Francine.
    Mathews, Francine.
    THE CUTOUT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bantam, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller debut in which only one woman can stop the deadly countdown to global terror. The author brings her experience as a former CIA analyst to her realistic work of fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 400 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-553-10893x.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new, appears unread.)

    Book ID: 68568
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