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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed, without inscription, upon title page by Gary Marcuse. xxi, [xvii], 511 pages. Footnotes, list of primary sources, and index. Many pages of black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Digs past the official moderation and uncovers a systematic state-sponsored repression of communists and the Left, directed at civil servants, scientists, trade unionists, and political activists. Unlike the United States, Canada's purges were shrouded in secrecy imposed by the government and avidly supported by the RCMP security service." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket, now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart, is sunned along spine. A high quality copy..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 282 pages. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. Recounts the politics and personalities of eighteenth century Rome, especially as they related to the collecting of Roman paintings, antiques and objets d'art for the adornment of great houses in England. Contents clean and unmarked. Light wear to book. Moderate wear to dust jacket which is preserved in mylar. A quality copy..

London: Victor Gollancz. Good in Good dust jacket. 1961. First British Edition. Hardcover. "Unveils new facts about events that were profoundly to influence the history of our times. The result of many years of research and investigation. Out of [a] tangled web of conspiracy and intrigue, the author has recounted an amazing story ranging from Moscow to Paris and Berlin, from the early 1920's to the Great Purges of 1938." - dust jacket. "Details Soviet State Security's 'Trust' operation (1921-1927) and its aftermath. Includes coverage of the kidnapping of Generals Kutyepov and Miller in the 1930s, and of the Tukhachevskiy Affair of 1937. One of the better and reliable works on the 'Trust' and other Soviet operations against the emigration." - Rocca & Dziak 179. Published one year after the U.S. Harper & Brothers first edition. x, 306 pp. Footnotes, glossary, bibliography and index. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear.… Read More

UK: Heinemann. Good in Good dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 224 pages. Index. Twenty pages of black and white photographic plates. "This account of the Cyprus revolt analyses its causes, and documents many of the incidents during the four dangerous and violent years before the Zurich agreements were signed in London in February 1959. The author, a Cypriot, is able to reveal something of the daring and ingenious methods of the EOKA guerrillas; their hide-outs in the mountains and forests, or in a peasant's cellar; their secret organisation which penetrated the church, the administration, even the police." - from dust jacket. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Foxing to endpapers and edges. Binding and hinges sound. Average wear to book which is unmarked. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Cyprus Guerrilla: Grivas, Makarios, and the British Cyprus revolt analyses its… Read More

New York: Seven Stories Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Printing. Hardcover. 1888363681 . Signed and inscribed by Gary Webb upon half-title page. "Shows how the L.A. crack market flourished through a breathtaking combination of government negligence, greed, and criminal conduct... Demonstrates that U.S. government agencies, including the CIA, DEA and FBI, were aware of the activities of this well-connected drug network and did little or nothing to stop it. Indeed, in several instances documented here, the Justice Department, the CIA, and the secret National Security Council unit run by Oliver North, took extraordinary steps to protect the ring from public exposure. In the final chapters Webb reveals the conflict that led to his newspaper's stunning repudiation of its own series - and at what cost he stood by his story." - dust jacket. xxviii, 548 pages. Footnotes, glossary and index. Webb was found dead in his home in 2004 with two gunshot wounds… Read More

Australia: Ocean Press. Good. 1999. Reprint. Paperback. 1876175192 . [14], 231 pages. Footnotes. Glossary. Index. "The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the president's foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting 'intelligence' justifying those activities. It shapes its intelligence to support presidential policy. Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies." - Ralph McGehee. "McGehee spent 25 years in the CIA from 1952-77. He entered a super-patriot at the height of the Cold War; he left disillusioned and shattered by what he had seen and learned, especially in Vietnam where he saw a tragic and senseless war develop." - back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. Tight and square. A sound copy. One of twenty-three books selected for inclusion… Read More

Great Britain: Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0859551490 . "Henri Déricourt, a French pilot commissioned in the RAF in WWII, was parachuted into France to receive and dispatch the British aircraft which landed secret agents during the German occupation. Awarded for his efforts by the French, he was subsequently charged with treason. Was there more to his case than met the eye? Prompted by her researches for her highly successful 'Madeleine', Jean Overton Fuller met and came to know Déricourt well. This book sifts all the evidence, examines the various theories and detects an episode in Déricourt's past which is perhaps the key to the whole absorbing saga. If the wartime world of the secret agent catches your imagination, here is total immersion." - dust jacket. viii, 407 pages. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Tight, clean, bright and unmarked… Read More

USA: Lyle Stuart Inc., 1984. Book. Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of twenty-three books selected for inclusion on the "Forbidden Bookshelf". 968 pages. Footnotes. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Prentice-Hall drastically slashed its print run and advertising budget, despite the book's having met its advance sales target and won wide acceptance in reviews across the country. The almost immediate (and reportedly unprecedented) cancellation by BOMC (Book of the Month Club) of a book under such circumstances would have a chilling impact on most publishers, and Prentice-Hall was no exception. They allowed the book to go out of stock while demand for it remained high, and ultimately let it go out of print altogether." - Foreword. The above was discovered only after the author took Du Pont and Prentice-Hall to federal court. "I have tried, with admittedly humble resources, to explain what the Du Ponts… Read More

Port Hope, Ontario: Larchwood Press. Good. 1990. First Edition. Paperback. 0969432003 . "Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the German and Soviet invasions of Poland in W.W. II, the [fictional] story of young Stefan Kula's coming of age among the Partisans rings with authenticity. Here is a tale of Poland's heroic resistance in all its tragic glory, from the first hours of the Blitzkrieg to the final 'liberation' by the Red Army, told by one who was there." - back cover. "A book of epic proportions... fascinating reading." - H.D. Birk, F.H.S.C. Author was born in Poland and served from 1939-1945 with the A.K. - the Underground Home Army. 300 pages. Clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy.; 8vo .

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada/a Division of Gage Publishing Limited, 1984. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 241 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "A unique account of the life of Hans Nutt, a young anti-Nazi German whose wartime career ranged from concentration camp prisoner to French Resistance worker to British spy." Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Enser p.77..

Luxembourg: European Parliament / EU, 1998. Book. Good. Plastic Comb. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 80 pages. Provides an update to members of the European Parliament on the technology of political control including police militarisation, surveillance technology, private prisons, and mark-free interrogation and torture technologies. Reads more like a sadist's handbook than a political document. Average wear. Considerable ink underlining and marginalia. A worthy reading copy..

London: William Kimber & Co Ltd, 1983. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 223 pages. Index. Glossary. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos. "Takes readers behind the scenes at RAF Medmenham in the Thames Valley and shows how, from overlapping pairs of aerial photographs, it was possible to view objects of German military or industrial importance three-dimensionally (or stereoscopically), and because of their training, interpretation officers of the three services and later of the USAAF, were in a position to disclose enemy plans, sometimes impossible for other sources of intelligence to obtain." - from dust jacket. Moderate overall wear. Clean and unmarked. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this fascinating work..

Charlottesville, Virginia: Institute of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. Very Good. 1940. First Edition. Pamphlet. This rare WWII-era Bernays item proposes a two-fold program for effectively fighting the Fifth Column in the Americas. "Time Magazine has called Bernays 'No. 1 U.S. Publicist. He is recognized as the nation's leading counsel on public relations, a profession he was instrumental in creating. Over two decades of experience in dealing with matters of public opinion have given him a keen insight and fine understanding of individual and mass psychology. He is the author of two authoritative books in the field, 'Crystallizing Public Opinion' and 'Propaganda'". - p. 21. 21 pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality example. Larson 368. ; 8vo .

USA: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 495 pages. Reprint of the 1956 first English edition. "One of the most absorbing, inspiring and ultimately disheartening documents to come out of the last war... The book, which is detailed and written with humor, modesty, and a surprising lack of rancor, makes it quite plain that there is an indominable quality in the Poles that will prevent them from ever giving up their great dream..." - The New Yorker. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Few library markings. Front free endpaper removed. Title page nearly severed by aggresive knife-wielding librarian. A worthy reading copy of this important account..

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers. Good. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. "The facts presented in the following pages may perhaps not be accepted without surprise and wonder as to their authenticity. The world at large has not yet quite appreciated the full extent of the secret intrigues which were carried on in the former German Empire before and during [WWI] that was to break its might and destroy it. And yet the whole fabric of German politics was built on these intrigues. From the time that Bismarck instituted his famous Bureau of Espionage, these machinations were steadily going on throught the whole of Europe and in America as well, and it seems desirable that the activity of this bureau in its nefarious work in Russia be exposed." - page 1. [8], 293 pp. Frontispiece photo of Trotzky and Lenine marshalling their forces for revolt, plus eight additional black and white plates. Moderate wear to maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Binding sound.… Read More

Canada: Douglas & McIntyre (Educational) Ltd., 2011. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 334 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Black and white reproductions of photos. "Explores the realities of media censorship in the context of the tension between government, free-market media, and those deputized to act on behalf of the public good. The first examination of Canadian wartime news control to use the massive files of the censors to fill in the historical gaps and answer major questions about Canada's war effort." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket progected in Brodart. A quality copy of this fascinating and controversial history..

Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited/McGill Institute, 1983. Book. Good. Paperback. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 338 pages. Index. The best-selling expose of the RCMP that reads like a spy thriller. "I'm tempted to say it may be the best book yet on Canadian security" - Peter Worthington. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked..

USA: L.U., 1988. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 202 pages. Footnotes. "This book will give you an education, as well as provide entertainment." - from page 3. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound working copy..

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 284 pages. Index. Photo illustrated endpapers. Black and white photographic plates. "This startling story, never revealed in its entiretly before, is told with full documentation by Major Jordan, who served as liaison officer with the Russians at Great Falls, Montana - the staging base for Russian Lend-Lease supplies... Documents the two known shipments of uranium; explains how engraving plates from the U.S. Treasury were made available to Russia with the help of Harry Dexter White... This book could well be titled 'How We Helped Russia and How the Russians Helped Themselves'." - from dust jacket. Unmarked book bears moderate wear and sound binding. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Quality copy of this important record..

USA: Pacifica Military History, 2000. Book. Illus. by Moody, Carol. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xvi, 329 pages. Index. Map. Black and white reproductions of photos. "On the night of March 24-25, 1944, seventy-nine Allied airmen clambered through a tunnel at Stalag Luft III in Eastern Germany in the final act of what history and Hollywood have dubbed The Great Escape... A tale of ingenuity, perseverance, and courage, and a testament to what ordinary men can achieve in extraordinary circumstances." - from dust jacket. Light wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in mylar. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. Slight lean to spine. A quality copy..