THE SPY'S BEDSIDE BOOK Hardcover - 2006

London: The Folio Society, 2006. Book. Illus. by Nick Hardcastle;. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xxi) 261 pp. Blue cloth decorated in black, brown and white on the front panel; lettered in white on the spine; headband; presented in a brown slipcase. Very lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Introduction by Stella Rimington; Introduction by Graham Greene; A Mission Is Proposed by John Buchan; Directive to Colonel Zabotin - anonymous; A Damned Good Story by W. Somerset Maugham; A Late Call at the German Embassy by L. C. Moyzisch; The Value of Hide and Seek by Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Take a Hard Boiled Egg by Bernard Newman; Example of Invisible Writing - anonymous; Tricked by William Le Queux; A Whip of the Circassian Sort by T. E. Lawrence; A Nasty Scratch by William Le Queux; A Spy Advertises by Herbert Greene; A Bathroom at the Paris Ritz by Dennis Wheatley; A Trussed Fowl by William Le Queux; In the Back of the Head by Vladimir Petrov; A Little Black Beret by Peter Fleming; At the Social Club by George Griffith; That Indeed is to Die by Fenimore Cooper; Seduced with the Old Tricks by W. H. Auden; I Spy by Graham Greene; A Segment of German Sausage by Peter Fleming; The Sad Fate of Major Andre by Richard Garnett and Anna Seward; The Police Spy by Joseph Conrad; Seven Miles from Calais by Max Pemberton; A Twinge by William Le Queux; A Narrow Squeak by Sir Paul Dukes; A Cross Country Run by Belle Boyd; Good Hunting by Maurice Paleologue; Foreign Travel by Ian Fleming and Walter Schellenberg; Seex Fat English Pigs by Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry; The Case of the Dixon Torpedo by Arthur Morrison; The Adventures of Bonaparte by Compton Mackenzie; Colette and Mata Hari by Colette; The Man in the Soft Cap by Edmund Blunden; A Meet in the Shires by William Le Queux; The Spies' March 1913 by Rudyard Kipling; A Royal Spy by Alan H. Burgoyne; Schnitzel alias Jones by Richard Harding Davis; How it Strikes a Contomporary by Robert Browning; Could Not Believe His Eyes by Sir Robert Baden-Powell; None Other Than by William Le Queux; The Waiters' Union by E. Phillips Oppenheim; Royal Gifts by William Le Queux; A Well Appointed Office by Walter Schellenberg; Blanc de Blanc Brut 1943 by Ian Fleming; A Certificate from General Washington by Fenimore Cooper; Prison Reading by R. H. Bruce Lockhart; Planning a Novel by Eric Ambler; Love by Major Andre; Queer People by Sir Basil Thomson; The Lawrences by Hugh Kingsmill; Operation Goethe by Thomas Mann; What the Soldier Said by William Blake; Coleridge and Wordsworth Suspects by S. T. Coleridge; The Gendarme and the Painter by Paul Gaughin; A Lawyer from Kent by Walter Schellenberg; The Amorous Duchess by Maurice Paleologue; Postscript to Dreyfus by Guy Chapman; Beneath the Open Windows by Thomas Hardy; The Ordinary Route by Maurice Paleologue; Equipment for Tibet by Lieutenant Colonel F. M. Bailey; Vodka with Pepper by Ian Fleming; Dichlorethyl Sulphide by R. L. Green; Butterfly Hunting in Dalmatia by Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Carrier Pigeons by H. R. Berndorff; A Visit to the Lavatory by R. H. Bruce Lockhart; Top People Read The Times by William Le Queux; A Plant by Admiral Sir William James; The German Governess; The Simplest Thing in the World; and An Early Microphone by Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry; The Hansom Cab Approach by George Griffith; and Calloway's Code by O. Henry; followed by Epilogue by Hugh Greene..