Search Results: Ashenden, Or, the British Agent by William Somerset Maugham

imusti, 0000-00-00. New Ed. paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback. Good.

Paperback. Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

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

Vintage, 2000-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Isis Large Print Books, 1992-03-01. Hardcover. Good. 3.5973 in x 21.5836 in x 13.9894 in. Ex-library book, Hardback/Hardcover, usual stamps and marking. Clean text, sound binding.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1928. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 304pp., bound in original blue cloth stamped in orange, spine lettering orange, top edge orange, A very good copy in very good, price clipped pictorial dust jacket with small chips at spine ends and corners. The story of the most dramatic and terrifying aspect of the war and an exciting story of the British secret service.

London: William Heinemann, 1928. [Thriller collection] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.196; [12], blank. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in black and gilt, striking illustrated dust-jacket. Some gentle toning, jacket with a tiny amount of wear at crown, spine toned as usual, 'The Times Book Club' small label to lower board. A particularly bright, fresh example of this Haycraft-Queen cornerstone book. An espionage adventure, based on Somerset Maugham's Secret Service experience in the Great War. Two of the stories in 'Ashenden' were used by Alfred Hitchcock as the basis for 'The Secret Agent'. 'It is the archetype of the espionage novel, a precursor to the works of Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, John Le Carre and Robert Ludlum' (Book Collector, no.272).