Danger from Moscow

Neville Spearman, London, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. introduction by author and index. The text is illustrated with the occasional black-and-white photographs. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Plaintext dustwrapper with red, white and black coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. "Here told for the first time in full and authenticated detail, is the complete story of history's most cunning undercover system: the net of Communist agents, informers, fellow-travellers, unwitting tools, that covers every nation of the world – the largest powers to the smallest principalities. Based on secret, confidential and never-before hype and published Cominform Instructions To Communist Party HQs– and intended only for communist circles – here are the facts of how Moscow orders its Communist Fifth Columns to penetrate into trade unions, the Conservative Party, the Church, and other organisations, how to launch lightning strikes in disturbances, how to 'discredit the class-enemy and hit him where it hurts most', and how to apply the Kremlin's 'new revolutionised' methods." – from the front fold over panel blurb. Softening of the back strip edges and bumping of the lower book corners. Light browning to the text block edges and pages with scattered foxing to the text block edges. Offset tanning and scattered foxing to the endpapers and the free front endpaper has previous bookshop's rubber stamp to the top left-hand corner of the same page. Chipping to the front panel corners and to the top back strip edge. Small close tears to the top dustwrapper edge with creasing. Rubbing of the dustwrapper panels and sunning also present. Light browning to the verso of the dustwrapper with foxing to the creases. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 7 - 261, [3] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Politics & Government; Espionage; 1950s; Inventory No: 0121899. .