Espionage from The Typographeum Bookshop

Rubenstein, Richard E.: Comrade Valentine. Harcourt Brace and Company. New York: 1994. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xx, 316. Illustrated. Notes on Sources. Index. Edges very slightly foxed, else fine copy in dj. ISBN 0-15-152895-0 Yevno Azef double-dealed between the revolutionary terrorists and the police in Czarist Russia before World War One. He was known to have organized the assassination of the Minister… Read more about this item

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xviii, 382. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Maps. Notes. Index. Fine copy in dj.

Dorril, Stephen: MI6, Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service. The Free Press. New York: 2000. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xvi, 908, (iv). List of Acronyms. Notes. Index. Some pages evidently damaged by moisture, else very good copy in dj.

First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xvi, 366, (ii). Illustrated. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

New York: Random House, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Pincher, Chapman: Treachery, Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain. Random House. New York: 2009. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xiv, 684, (ii). Appendix. Note on the Sources. Archival Sources. Bibliography. Index. The author says right at the beginning: "Throughout time, there has… Read more about this item

New York: Harmony Books, 2007. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xiv, 366. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Selected Bibliography. Index. Eddie Chapman was a minor criminal who fatefully fell into the hands of the Nazis. They trained him to return to Britain and spy for them. However, things did not work out quite… Read more about this item

New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xviii, 238. Illustrated: (8) pp. of plates. Index. Foreword by Birger Riis-Jorgensen. Also includes the 1957 Foreword by Air Chief Marshall Sir Basil Embrey. This book was originally published by Cassell & Company, London, in 1957.

New York: The Free Press, 1998. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (x), 614. Illustrated: (8) pp. of plates. Appendices. Index. The author was the son of Benjamin Marks, the founder of the famous London bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road. He was perhaps the most gifted cryptographer who worked for the Special… Read more about this item

Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, 2001. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 254, (ii). Map. Bibliography. Index. This is an account of the Special Operations Executive which was written in conjunction with a BBC series broadcast in 2000. It is exceptionally well-written and most interesting.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Edges foxed, else fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 320.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. Reprinted. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xx, 616. Illustrated: (20) pp plates. Glossary. Checklist. Index. This was one of the early biographies of Anthony Blunt which appeared after it was learned he had been a Soviet agent working with the other famous English spies, Burgess, Maclean and Philby.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xl, 376. Illustrated: (8) pp. of plates. Checklist. Index This is a biography of Wolfgang Vogel, a suave East German lawyer who moved between East and West brokering deals between the two Cold War sides.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xvi, 272. (8) pp. plates. Checklist. Index. There had always been a great deal of paranoia within the British security services, but by the 1960s it was rampant. Some officials even believed the Prime Minister of the time, Harold Wilson, was a… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1987. Reprinted. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (vi), 394. Illustrated: [8] pp. of plates. Index.  When this book was published, it created a storm. Peter Wright was a scientist working for British Intelligence from 1955. In the 1960s he came to be involved—too closely, it seems—in the search for "The Fifth Man",… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xxii, 384. Illustrated: (8) pp. plates. Index. Edited and with an Introduction by Phillip Knightley. Translated by Antonia W. Bouis.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xiv, 498. Illus. Map. Notes. Checklist. Index. Mildred Harnack was an American woman who with her German husband Arvid and their friends ran one of the most effective anti-Nazi resistance groups until they were captured and executed.

London: Bodley Head, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xx, 212. Illustrated: (8) pp. of plates. Index. Foreword by Lord Annan. Donald Maclean had a brilliant career as a diplomat. However on a day in 1951 he suddenly vanished with Guy Burgess. Thus set off one of the most remarkable cases in British espionage… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Da Capo Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xii, 396. Illustrated: (4) pp. of plates. Notes. Checklist. Index. Michael Straight attended Cambridge University in the 1930s where he was drawn into the circle of friends who later became famous as Soviet spies. He passed information to them and apparently was far… Read more about this item

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xvi, 448. Illustrated: (8) pp. plates. Notes. Checklist. Index. A study of the Soviet penetration of British Intelligence which began in the 1930s and continued for decades.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Small 4to. Boards. Pp. xviii, 478. Checklist. Indices. With sections on Assassination, Budgets, Deceptions, Failures, Leaks, Nut Cases, Treason and many more.