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New York: Ivy Books/Ballantine Books, 1988. 338 pages. Bends on two corners of the front cover; wear on the spine and cover edges; tear along the bottom edge of the back cover; stains along page ends. One inch red mark on page 166. The author, Elizabeth Bentley, joined the Communist Party in 1934 and rose to become a key Soviet agent in New York and Washington. She reveals the organization, tactics, and strategies of the party, and names her espionage contacts: an assistant secretary of the Treasury, the President's executive assistant, Julius Rosenberg, higher officers in military intelligence, and Communist spies in the media.. 1st Ballantine Books Edition . Soft Cover. Fair. 4.25 x 7. Soviet Espionage Networks .

The Devin-Adair Company 1951. FIRST EDITION SECOND PRINTING, SOME HIGHLIGHTING TO TEXT, octavo, yellow heavy boards, black lettering to spine, 311pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to gutter of title page, 4cm closed tear to half title page, occasional highlighting to text) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, moderate chafing)

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: The Devin-Adair Company. 1951. 2nd printing, 8vo, pp. (ii) 311, bookplate, loosely inserted newspaper clipping, orig cl bds., top cnrs bent, in price-clipped d.j rubbed, spine lightly sunned Account of the former Russian Secret Police courier and her collaboration with the FBI 1st Edition, second issue. Boards in d.j..

New York: The Devin-Adair Company. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [moderate wear to spine end and book's corners, discoloration to ffep, one-time owner's signature on front and rear pastedowns; jacket heavily edgeworn, a few nicks and tiny chips, a bit of paper loss at spine extremities and several corners]. Hoo-boy, how to even begin to summarize the convoluted saga of Elizabeth Bentley, who spied for the Soviets from roughly 1935 to 1945, then turned on them and began spilling her guts to the FBI, ratting out dozens of her former comrades. The Soviets got onto her game pretty quickly, though, and when it became apparent that her prospects of becoming an effective double agent were tainted (in part at least because details of her cooperation with the Feds began leaking to the press), she did a very media-savvy thing by attempting to seize control of her own narrative by feeding her story to a couple of reporters for the New York… Read More

Hardback. New.