Take Nine Spies by Fitzroy Maclean - 1978-04-20

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London- UK: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1978. TAKE NINE SPIES- Fitzroy Maclean- Illustrated- Weidenfeld and Nicholson-London- ISBN 0-297-77385-2-1978-1st-1st-UK- Hardcover:-8vo- Very Good/None -some toning on spie and upper board, otherwise-A very good clean tight book without inscriptions or other marks. Lightest touch of edge rub along bottom. Page edges are clean, ffep and half-title crease, previous owners name on inside cover page.-SEE PHOTOS- "Nine true spy stories of recent history-Account of the activities of nine spies including Azef, Sorgve, Philby, Lonsdale & Penkovsky, told by one of the foremost adventurers of the last century. 341 pages, two page bibliography, eight plates including, inevitably, Mata Hari. - Non-fiction-espionage-true stroies-illustrated (2014) . 1st Edition-1st Printing. Cloth. VG/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Includes excerpts from Philby's 'My Silent War' and Penlovsky's 'The Penkovsky Papers with respective publisher's permissions.] FINE-/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.These edns are generally believed to be export edns and precede the trade edns issues and distribution in the country of origin.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,wrap-around navy blue background with capitalised red-lettered author name and capitalised white-lettered title and beneath the title,montaged thumbnail,8 contemporary b/w portrait photographs of 8 of the 9 spies discussed.The ninth - Major William Martin was a persona invented by British Military Intelligence for 'Operation Mincemeat',the WW2 deception plan that lured German forces to Greece prior to the Allied invasion of Sicily.Also known as "The man who never was".Spine/backstrip with similarly coloured lettering from front panel and with black-lettered publisher name within a rectangular white panel at foot of… Read More