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THE WATCHMEN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2004). First edition - A modern spy thriller, involving the CIA and an Al Queda prisoner. "In a remote safe house in the American Northeast, a terrorist is questioned, a psychiatrist is tested, and an assassin is dispatched..." 262 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70001More details Price: $15.00 -
JUDGMENT ON DELTCHEV.
Edition: First printing, first issue dust jacket.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1951) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ambler's seventh novel - but his first since World War II (his previous novel, "Journey into Fear," was published in 1940. When a playwright is asked to write an article about Deltchev's trial in the Balkans, he is expecting the usual travesty common to Communist regimes. Instead he discovers the secret and powerful Brotherhood and realizes he has to find out the truth, even if it will never come out in the trial. 256 pp. In the first issue dust jacket illustrated by Leslie Wood.
Condition: Very good in light blue cloth in a good dust jacket (usual toning to the pages, dj is price-clipped, has overall edgewear with some minor chipping, loss of about 1 cm at top of spine)
Book ID: 77635More details Price: $75.00 -
JUDGMENT ON DELTCHEV.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. dj. Hardcover first edition - Ambler's seventh novel - but his first since World War II (his previous novel, "Journey into Fear," was published in 1940. When a playwright is asked to write an article about Deltchev's trial in the Balkans, he is expecting the usual travesty common to Communist regimes. Instead he discovers the secret and powerful Brotherhood and realizes he has to find out the truth, even if it will never come out in the trial. 247 pp. Dust jacket by Bill English.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (small chip missing from base of dj spine, with spot on spine, light toning to pages, sunning to spine)
Book ID: 77636More details Price: $45.00 -
RESTLESS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Bloomsbury, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - It's summer 1976 in Oxford, England and Ruth Gilmartin discovers that someon is trying to kill her very English mother Sally - who is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigre and one-time spy for the British during World War II. 324 pp. ISBN: 1596912367.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot.)
Book ID: 54960More details Price: $18.00 -
RESTLESS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Bloomsbury, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - It's summer 1976 in Oxford, England and Ruth Gilmartin discovers that someon is trying to kill her very English mother Sally - who is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigre and one-time spy for the British during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 1596912367.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66188More details Price: $40.00 -
IN THE RED.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Spy thriller by this master of the genre, set in the late 1940's at the beginning of the Cold War. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-312-046774.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (minor edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 43482More details Price: $16.00 -
LAST ACT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Spy thriller set mostly in World War II among the Polish resistance. The NY Times praises Egleton's book by saying "the research is careful, the writing laconic and the atmosphere brooding." As a former intelligence officer, Eggleton is writing out of his personal experience and knowledge. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-312-05887x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44393More details Price: $18.00 -
SHADOW TRADE.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Quartet Crime, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, still early in his career and published before he began receiving acclaim for his nuanced and well-researched espionage novels. This deals with "the dark, ruthless politics of the private intelligence agencies." SIGNED on the title page. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-7043-24350.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small red 'chop mark' stamped on front endpaper, but overall a tight copy which appears unread.)
Book ID: 49927More details Price: $225.00 -
QUILLER MERIDIAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Spy thriller set in Siberia, in a post cold-war world. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-688-11797x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48435More details Price: $19.50 -
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Macmillan, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author who had spent "twenty years travelling widely in Europe and the Far East as a diplomat, then working in counter-terrorism and for the United Nations. He draws on this experience to describe the secret world of espionage with insight and great authenticity." One review stated that his novels remain among the most iconic, chilling and gripping spy novels ever published. In this book, "British agent David Nairn investigates the link between two seemingly unrelated incidents--an exchange of prisoners between the Russians and British and the murder of a Chinese agent in Nepal, six years later." 304 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-025485202.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 76120More details Price: $16.50 -
THE INFORMER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown / Shaye Areheart, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Literary thriller set in 1930s Berlin - a world of espionage, betrayal, complex political entaglements - and a serial killer who is stalking prostitutes. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0307236937.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 74835More details Price: $16.50 -
AT RISK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition - The highly praised first novel (second book) from the first woman director of Britain's MI5.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 30599More details Price: $25.00 -
AT RISK.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The highly praised first novel (second book) from the first woman director of Britain's MI5. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 367 pp. ISBN: 1-400043700.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77508More details Price: $40.00 -
THE CAIRO AFFAIR.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 82660More details Price: $30.00
