Author: Graham Greene; Hugh Greene
Title: The Spy&Apos;S Bedside Book
Description: London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of Graham and Hugh Greene's book of tips and tricks for aspiring spies, in the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression. In the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. A bedside book for spies, with hints, tricks and new methods for the profession. An intriguing combination of fact and fiction, containing short stories by Arthur Morrison, Richard Harding Davis, O. Henry, and Graham Greene, and poems by Browning, Kipling, Auden, and the Swan of Lichfield. Representing many practitioners such as Belle Boyd, Vladimir Petrov, Eric Ambler, and many more. Edited by prolific English writer and journalist, Graham Greene, with the help of his brother Hugh Greene, who was director-general for the BBC from 1960-9. In the publisher's cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with a light bump to the front board extremity and light spotting to the fore edge. Dust wrapper is also excellent, with light edge wear, sunning to the spine and the odd mark. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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