Espionage from Lorne Bair Rare Books

London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. First Edition. First Impression, in first issue dustwrapper without the later reviews or author statement. Publisher's black cloth boards with red titles and ‘Heart' design to upper, in pictorial jacket. Book has a slight lean but is essentially a clean copy in a very slightly scuffed and edgeworn dustwrapper. A quite splendid association copy. In… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. First Edition. Limited Edition one of 250 copies, this being #135. Octavo (24cm). Red cloth in Fine condition. 255pp. Issued with clear mylar dustjacket. Matching red slipcase in Fine condition. Book 15 in the Dr. David Audley Series.

New York: The Hour Publishers, 1952. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 16pp. Mild external soil; Very Good or better. Exposé of one of the major intelligence leaks of the early Cold War, which resulted when Major General Robert W. Grow, at this time the Military Attaché to the U.S. Embassy at Moscow, allowed his… Ler mais sobre este item

[New York: National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case, 1951]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed newsprint wrappers, 32pp; illus. Slight toning, tiny chips to corners; Very Good. Post-trial pamphlet, issued after the Rosenbergs had been sentenced to death. Presents the evidence in the case and demands acquittal. Includes portraits of the principal figures.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's yellow cloth. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in black to spine and front board, minor bumping and edgewera, in a very sharp. clean example of the pictorial dustjacket with some marginal chipping, and light soiling to the white rear panel. 315pp. Internally clean, some light spotting to the page edges. A… Ler mais sobre este item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, 1946. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); dark blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [8],9-256pp. Spine ends gently nudged, some foxing to endpapers, else contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), gently spine-sunned, showing modest external… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1903. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth gilt; 223pp; photographic portrait frontispiece (halftone). Thin, partial splits to hinges; mild external rubbing and wear; straight and sound, but with an old repair to front pastedown near gutter and a small but conspicuous stain to rear board. A complete, just Very Good copy. … Ler mais sobre este item

Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth-backed paper-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 166pp; includes bibliography. Fine, apparently unread copy in the original dustwrapper, crisp and unworn. Appears new.

Richmond: Dietz Press, 1944. Second edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; 254pp. Tight, straight, firm copy; text slightly toned at margins as usual, else Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. An excellent working copy.

Richmond: Dietz Press, 1944. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket, 254pp. Tight, straight, firm copy; text slightly toned at margins else Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, priced $3.00 at base of rear flap; slightly soiled and worn, Very Good.

[Martinsburg]: Jefferson County Historical Society, [1992]. Reprint. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; [8],284pp; ilus. Three photographic illustrations before text. Fine, apprently unread copy. Photo facsimile from the original text (published 1865). Special edition issued by the Jefferson County Historical Society to commemorate the purchase of the Belle Boyd House in Martinsburg, WV in 1992.

New York: William Heinemann Ltd, 1968. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); plum-colored paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; x,306,[4]pp. Light wear, subtle offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers; Near Fine. In the first state dustjacket, without text on the rear panel; unclipped (priced 30s net), with gentle sunning to spine and some mild surface… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Century Company, 1919. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; pictorial cloth hardcover, dustjacket, 280pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, with pictorial cloth bright and un-rubbed. In stated "Third Printing" dustwrapper, likely supplied by a previous collector. Still a very attractive copy of this early spy novel, set in the Great War.

New York: Appleton-Century Cp, 1934. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; red cloth hardcover in dustjacket; 401pp. Faint wear and soil, with some bruises to board edges, still Very Good in the attractive and uncommon pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 at base of front flap), but with old kraft-paper reinforcements to verso, thus just Good, though the book presents well.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-252,[4]pp. A few tiny spots of discoloration to topstain, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £2.75), with some trivial surface wear, else Fine. An espionage novel involving Nazi gold and a bidding war for documents revealing… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.25cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-254,[2]pp. Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 21s. net), lightly edgeworn and gently spine-sunned; Very Good+, with the publisher's original dossier and related inserts laid in. Deighton's fifth novel featuring… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1946. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [6],7-287,[1]pp. Slight lean, edgeworn, faint foxing to text edges, with some gentle sunning to spine, and more pronounced sunning to spine ends and upper board edges; scattered soil to lower half of covers; Very… Ler mais sobre este item

Northridge: Lord John Press, 1989. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.39. Octavo (19.25cm); marbled paper-covered boards and hunter green leather backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [xii],37,[7]pp. Pinpoint wear to spine ends, else Fine. Fine press edition collecting six short pieces, which originally… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1965. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.25cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; x,198pp. Faint foxing to text edges and endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 18/- net), lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny bubbles beneath the laminate, some faint foxing, and a tiny patch of adhesive pull on… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Mysterious Press, 1984. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no. 65. Octavo (24cm). 271pp. Blue and black cloth gently nudged at the crown of spine, else Fine copy. Dustjacket and matching blue slipcase are both in Fine condition. Book 14 in the Dr. David Audley Series. Pictorial… Ler mais sobre este item