The Book of Spies: 4000 Years of Cloak & Dagger
by INNES, Brian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1966. Hardcover. 4to. Green cloth with black lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 95pp. Numerous illustrations (many color), decorative endpapers. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear; for some dinged lower outer corner of some pages. First U.S. edition after the Bancroft & Co. English edition, tight and attractive despite those dinged lower outer page corners. A well illustrated survey of (to cite jacket front panel) "History's greatest masters of espionage -- from the twelve spies of Moses to the secret agejts of the Cold War....
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27892
- Title
- The Book of Spies: 4000 Years of Cloak & Dagger
- Author
- INNES, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Military History;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.
About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...