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DEFECTORS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 88847More details Price: $20.00 -
DEATH BY ESPIONAGE: Intriguing Stories of Betrayal and Deception.
Edition: First printing.
Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology containing 19 stories of betrayal, revenge, and treachery, ranging from Victorian England to the post-Cold War world. Contributors include Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stuart Kaminsky, John D. MacDonald and more. Authors' biographies. 415 pp. ISBN: 1581820402.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 51202More details Price: $25.00 -
THE BIRDS FALL DOWN.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, 1966. Hardcover first edition - Novel set at in the early years of the twentieth century, based on actual events which helped pave the way for Lenin to rise to power in Russia. Told from the point of a view of a young girl, half-English, and the granddaughter of an exiled Russian aristocrat living in Paris. A book which combines the elements of a spy thriller with a thoughtful probing into human motives. 435 pp.
Condition: Very good in paper covered boards, no dj. (some spotting to the edges of the textblock.)
Book ID: 16852More details Price: $16.50 -
THE BIRDS FALL DOWN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set at in the early years of the twentieth century, based on actual events which helped pave the way for Lenin to rise to power in Russia. Told from the point of a view of a young girl, half-English, and the granddaughter of an exiled Russian aristocrat living in Paris. A book which combines the elements of a spy thriller with a thoughtful probing into human motives. 435 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 18434More details Price: $25.00 -
THE BIRDS FALL DOWN.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Viking, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set at in the early years of the twentieth century, based on actual events which helped pave the way for Lenin to rise to power in Russia. Told from the point of a view of a young girl, half-English, and the granddaughter of an exiled Russian aristocrat living in Paris. A book which combines the elements of a spy thriller with a thoughtful probing into human motives. 435 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some sunning to spine of dj. light toning to pages)
Book ID: 84352More details Price: $16.50 -
THE MASK OF THE BLACK TULIP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book in this series involving grad student Eloise Kelly, who in the first book discovered the secret identity of England's master spy during the Napoleonic Wars, the Pink Carnation, and in this one, she is once unearthing clues about the Pink Carnation's nemesis, the French spy known as the Black Tulip. A fun book to read, a combination of chick lit and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Author's historical note. 406 pp. ISBN: 0-525-949208.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 44955More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MASK OF THE BLACK TULIP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book in this series involving grad student Eloise Kelly, who in the first book discovered the secret identity of England's master spy during the Napoleonic Wars, the Pink Carnation, and in this one, she is once unearthing clues about the Pink Carnation's nemesis, the French spy known as the Black Tulip. A fun book to read, a combination of chick lit and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Author's historical note. 406 pp. ISBN: 0-525-949208.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 51150More details Price: $18.00 -
THE DECEPTION OF THE EMERALD RING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third book in this series involving grad student Eloise Kelly, who is researching the secret identity of England's master spy during the Napoleonic Wars. A fun book to read, a combination of chick lit and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Author's historical note. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-525-949771.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56246More details Price: $18.00 -
THE TEMPTATION OF THE NIGHT JASMINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth book in the Pink Carnations series, a "lighthearted, romantic and suspenseful novel about the most elusive spy of all time." A fun book to read, a combination of chick lit and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Author's historical note. 388 pp. ISBN: 9780525950967.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56310More details Price: $18.00 -
THE MISCHIEF OF THE MISTLETOE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book in the Pink Carnations series, a "lighthearted, romantic and suspenseful novel about the most elusive spy of all time." A fun book to read, a combination of chick lit and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Recipes, author's historical note. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-0525951872.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87118More details Price: $18.00
