Search Results: Espionage from Berthoff Books

Avon Books, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 328 pages, with bibliography, index. "The explosive inside story of the CIA's supersecret airline" (front cover), first Avon printing of book published 1979. History from Cold |War period, especially Vietnam War. Mass-market paperback, edges tinted yellow, barely worn, binding tight, pages slightly age-toned but unmarked.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 214 pages, with index. 8vo, beige cloth in lightly worn DJ, very faint foxing to top edge. Former owners' names on front pastedown, binding tight, pages bright, underscoring and margin brackets on approximately 60 pages.

Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Good/Good. 248 pages, with index, select bibliography, list of primary sources. Three maps, 28 b&w illustrations on plates. Account of various deception operations in North Africa and occupied Europe; fake weapons and bases, false radio signals, etc., and the politics of Allied coordination in this field. 8vo, black material over boards with gilt lettering on spine, scant wear, red stain to bottom edge, light foxing to others, semi-circular tan stain at top corner of about five pages, old price sticker on front free end paper. Dust jacket, which has a similar stain and is worn with small creases and tears, identifies "book club edition". Underscoring and margin marks observed on two pages and rear DJ flap.

André Deutsch Ltd, 2004. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 360 pages, with index and bibliography. Illustrated with b&w photos on four double-sided plates. A critical look at MI5, British domestic intelligence, after 9/11. Trade paperback, former library book with relevant stickers and stamps, wraps worn and creased, peeling to inside front cover, edges and page margins age-toned. Underscoring and/or margin brackets on approximately 30 pages.

Zebra Books (Kensington Publishing Corp.), 1980. Soft cover. Good. 319 pages. First published 1969, first-hand account of British Intelligence's Room 900 operations to extract captured operatives and other POWs from Nazi-occupied Europe. Illustrated with black and white photos. Mass-market paperback, wraps worn, pages brown from age, a few pages accidentally creased at bottom, binding tight. Old pencil price on front free end paper, another notation on rear fep. Interior pages unmarked.

McDowell, Obolensky, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 180 pages. First printing stated. Eleven b&w illustrations - photos and document facsimiles. Account, written pseudonymously by the Czech former communist and former official in the Masaryk government Josef B. Heisler who had emigrated to the UK, of the Cold War disappearance of Cdr Lionel Crabb while diving to inspect a Russian warship. 8vo, green cloth with black lettering on spine, wear at crown, dust soil to top edge, a few faint foxing spots to other edges, age-toning to end papers. Unclipped dust jacket is soiled and worn, with chipping and up to 1" tears, some mended with clear tape from the inside. Name of a former owner written on front pastedown, old prices in pencil on front free end paper, interior pages unmarked.

Little, Brown and Company, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 439 pages, with index. First American edition. Account by the famous British intelligence agent of his travels in Scandinavia, East Central Europe, and the Balkans on the eve of World War II. 8vo, metallic silver cloth with butter-yellow lettering, wear to crown/heel/corners, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, chips to bottom edge of a couple of pages, bookstore sticker on rear pastedown, old price notations on front and rear pastedowns. Interior pages unmarked.

Bantam Books, 1974. Soft cover. Fair. 623 pages, with index, bibliography. Paperback edition of book published early that year. Introduction by Robert Conquest. Sixteen pages of b&w photos. General history and profile of the Soviet intelligence agency, including description of its structure, as well as accounts of famous Cold War incidents, assassinations, etc. Mass-market paperback, exterior beat-up with tear at top of backstrip, 3/4" chip to bottom corner of back cover, creasing, approximately last 60 pages crinkled/dog-eared at back bottom corner, edges and pages age-tanned. Mark in pen on back cover at bottom. Pages unmarked.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 465 pages, with index, acronyms list. A study of the secretive National Security Agency. Medium 8vo (6-3/8" x 9-1/4"), maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, scant shelf wear, in price-clipped dust jacket with Brodart protective cover, stains to jacket on spine and a few smudges elsewhere. Former owner's name written on front pastedown, old price in pencil on front free end paper, pages unmarked.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 256 pages, with index, glossary. Account by U.S. News and World Report editor ranges from Iran-Contra to freeing kidnap victims in Italy to other cover ops in Central America. Features "the private notebooks of Oliver North." Blue paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, practically no wear to boards, faint foxing and remainder mark on top edge. Unclipped dust jacket has shelf wear, crease to rear flap at bottom corner, chip at crown. Old price in pencil written on first free end paper, underscoring and/or margin brackets in pen on approximately 60 pages.

Anchor Books (Doubleday-Random House), 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. 395 pages, with index. First paperback edition of book published the previous year. Addresses domestic surveillance excesses in the George W. Bush years. Trade paperback, very light wear along edges, pages bright and unmarked.

Harper & Row, 1990. Soft cover. Good. 342 pages, illustrated with photographs on four double-sided plates. Mass-market paperback (Harper Paperbacks), rubbing along spine and especially to front wrap, which has two eroded patches (largest one 2" long), faint foxing to edges, edges and page margins age-toned, small singes to inside front cover and ffep. No markings observed to text.