I Was Cicero

Pan Books Ltd, London, 1964. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. This book came to be written. Between pages 88 and 89 there are eight pages of black-and-white photography. Illustrated paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. Cicero was a spy who frustrated the Allied High Command, as he was leaking vital information to the Germans. Who was he? In this book Cicero tells of his own story " ... the chronicles of the money-madman who lived on a knife-edge of fear in the British Embassy in Ankara as the ambassador's valet from April 1943 to April 1944. where he conducted a love affair with an Embassy family's hard-drinking nanny and continually photographed Allied secret documents for Germans, who crowning irony, paid him in worthless forged bank-notes." -- from rear panel blurb. Pan X 307. The previous owner has covered the book in a clear contact plastic – which has started to yellow. Creasing of the book corners and the remnants of a sticker to the right-hand corner of the front panel, underneath the contact plastic. A small chip to lower left-hand corner of the back strip. Uniform tanning of the text block edges and pages. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 175 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Military & Warfare; Espionage; WW II; Inventory No: 0126333. .