Espionnage

L'Espionnage international. Revue consacrée aux questions et aux services de renseignements et d'information, publiée sous la direction de Mr. R. Mennevée, auteur de L'Espionnage international en temps de paix

230583Paris, 1933 3 livraisons en un vol. in-4 carré, 64 pp., 52 pp., 68 pp., texte sur deux colonnes, avec des illustrations dans le texte, et une carte dépliante en couleurs hors texte, demi-basane prune marbrée, dos à nerfs, tranches mouchetées, couvertures conservées (reliure de l'époque).

Librairie Historique Fabrice Teissèdre · Sauve, France500,00 €

HASWELL JockMareMagnum

The First Respectable Spy. The Life and Times of Colquhoun Grant, Wellington's Head of Intelligence. [Second Impression]. J H OWEN'S COPY

8vo., Second Impression , with portrait frontispiece, 16 plates, 7 illustrations and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers, top lightly dust-soiled; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published six months after the first edition. With remnants of dustwrapper loosely inserted. This copy was formerly in the library of the eminent naval historian J.H. Owen with his initials on front free endpaper. VERY SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION.

Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB329,83 €

Francis Gerard [Francis Edward Marie Gerard] (1906-1966), English thriller and science fiction writer who settled in South AfricBiblio.com

Francis Gerard thriller and science fiction writer. Two Typed Letters Signed to Eileen Cond discussing his plans for writing and work for the ‘delightful old boy’ Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and his Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.

2496312 March 1950; ‘P.O. Box 143 Westville Natal South Africa.’ 19 August 1955; Caroline Cottage 1st Avenue Inanda Johannesburg. Good letters the second with biographical content about a prolific yet elusive author. The recipient Eileen Margaret Cond 1911-1984 was an enthusiastic collector of autographs with the ability to draw a more than perfunctory response from her targets. Both letters in good condition on lightly aged paper folded for postage. Each bearing large stylized signature ‘Francis Gerard’ and addressed to ‘Dear Miss Cond’. ONE 12 March 1950. 1p 4to. He reports that he is ‘busy on a new thriller which I have given the provisional title of HORNED HAVEN’ the title does not show up among Gerard’s published works. ‘The General Election in England was followed by us out here with an almost unbearable feeling of tension and for my part I realised that though I am now officially a citizen of this country that I will never make a good South African.’ He reports ‘a tremendous flap about the Seretse Khama business which seems to have been handled just about as stupidly as it could have been’. He is returning her bookplates ‘with Gérard his mark upon them though I still don’t know when you’ll be able to stick the second one into TRANSPARENT TRAITOR. I gather the whole printing and publishing trade is in a parlous condition in England thanks to machinery being worn out and not replaced owing to Cripps’ insistence on all such new tackle being for export only.’ He ends with a warning regarding ‘the temperature in Durban’ for her father. TWO: 2pp foolscap 8vo. A long letter. He has been ‘wandering around Central Africa with a bunch of geologists and mining engineers’ and finding her letter is ‘touched by the continuance of your long-range friendship’. There is ‘little chance’ of his producing another book for some time. ‘When I do it will be a very different kind of book from what I have written in the past.’ The next two paragraphs describe his employment with the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. ‘My job is a peculiar one half industrial relations and man management half public relations. The AAC is the biggest mining group in the world. It is also an enormously powerful finance house. At the head of it sits Sir Ernest Oppenheimer who despite his fantastic wealth is a most charming and delightful old boy.’ He describes how in his first year with AAC he ‘travelled nearly 30000 miles about Southern and Central Africa by aircraft car jeep horse or on my own flat feet. I went underground in diamonds gold coal copper and base metals. I stayed in palatial guest-houses or at lonely Jesuit missions in the bush. I went through malaria tsetse-fly country where you shot for the pot and kept a wary eye open for crocodile leopard or buffalo and once was fortunate to have my pygmy friends drive a gorilla for me. You do not shoot these. They are Royal Game and if you kill one it costs you a £600 fine.’ He continues for a while before describing his family. A paragraph follows in which he claims not to have ‘sold myself to Mammon’. He praises the ‘Ernest Oppenheimer hospital for Africans at Welkom’ as ‘the finest thing of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere’. He winds up with a paragraph on his ‘financial benefits’ and another on his children’s school results the former beginning ‘Well there it is. This is why Francis Gerard has not appeared on the back of a book for some time.’ 12 March 1950; ‘P.O. Box 143, Westville, Natal [South Africa].’ 19 August 1955; Caroline Cottage, 1st Avenue, Inanda, Johann unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni250,00 £GB≈ 285,45 €

[MAISEAU (Raymons-Balthasard)].Livre Rare Book

Enquête faite par ordre du Parlement d'Angleterre, pour constater les progrès de l'industrie en France et dans les autres pays du continent. Présenté à la Chambre de commerce de Paris

232890Paris, Baudouin frères [Imprimerie de Fain], 1825 in-8, xix pp., 359 pp., demi-basane fauve, dos lisse orné de guirlandes et frises dorées, ainsi que de larges fleurons noirs, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque). Dos légèrement insolé, rousseurs.

Librairie Historique Fabrice Teissèdre · Sauve, France250,00 €

ENNIS, Garth (scénario) - Dessin collectifLivre Rare Book

The Punisher, Intégrale (Marvel Omnibus)

20101070232010 Editions Panini Comics, Collection Marvel Omnibus - 2010 - Fort in-8, cartonnage noir avec décors argenté sur le premier plat, sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs de l'éditeur - 1088 planches illustrées en couleurs

Librairie Le Père Pénard · Lyon, France250,00 €

MIRABEAU COMTE DE RIQUETTILivre Rare Book

HISTOIRE SECRETE DE LA COUR DE BERLIN OU CORRESPONDANCE D'UN VOYAGEUR FRANCOIS , DEPUIS LE MOIS DE JUILLET 1786 JUSQU'AU 19 JANVIER 1787 , OUVRAGE POSTHUME

17890123701789 SANS LIEU , NI EDITEUR , 2 TOMES en UN VOLUME grand in-8 de XVII + 318 + 376 pages , dans une reliure d'époque plein veau marbré , dos à 5 nerfs avec caissons richement ornés , quelques taches et mouillures à la fin du tome 1 et au début du tome 2 , les ors du dos ont légèrement passés , autrement bon exemplaire Bon Couverture rigide

Librairie Ancienne Philippe Bertrandy · Le Puy en Velay, France250,00 €

Peyraud de Beaussol, alias FortelleLivre Rare Book

La Vie Militaire, Politique et Privée de Demoiselle Charles-Geneviève-Louise-Auguste-Andrée-Thimotée Eon ou d'Eon de Beaumont

177922291779 sans nom éditeur, Paris, 1779. In-8, plein veau.. Frontispice (portrait), 1 feuillet, 175 pages.

Livres Anciens Gilles Barbero · Arles, France250,00 €

Multiple ContributorsMareMagnum

Newsweek - The Magazine of News Significance, April 8, 1946: Spring is Circus Time

96 pages. Features: Nice one-page ad for the Lockheed Constellation features illustration of cabin scene in-flight; Attractive color Ford ad features Green car being loaded with luggage; photo of Robert Moses of Chicago wins bubble-blowing contest; Ku Klux Klan article with photo of burning cross and shrouded members; Russian Spy - Nicolai Gregorovich Redin; New Gropings with the Atom; Cordell Hull prepares memoirs; Nice color-photo Camel cigarette ad says "More Doctors Smoke Camels"; Very nice color one-page Coke ad features spring cleaning scene; Gromyko walks out of UNO; Ad for the Town House Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles; Very cute color Schlitz beer ad features bear in nighshirt raiding fridge at night; Guns over Trieste; The Austrian Larder; Arthur Axmann - article with photo; Famine news from Europe; Possible trouble in India - with photo of Gandhi; Trouble for Jewish sports team in Vienna; Shanghai - inflation and theft; Kendo photo from Japan - it has been outlawed by the Allies; Very nice color centerfold ad for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Nice one-page color-portrait of Mr. Mervyn Le Roy in Calvert Whiskey ad; Ontario liberalizes liquor laws; Five more persons accused of Russian spying in Canada; The Capitolio Diamond Mystery; Argentina fears Yankee 'Nazi' threat; Brief obituaries for Noah Beery Sr., Charles F. Hurley, Martin L. Davey, George Washington, Field Marshal Viscount Gort; Shirley Jane Vetter regains sight after her baby is born; Oil - the big three tangle in the middle east; Color Union Pacific ad features Utah's Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks; Yellow Bole Pipe ad; Mr. Baruch on the Extension of OPA; Billiard article and photo on Willie Mosconi; Attractive one-page color ad for the Martin 2-0-2 aircraft; Gerald Kersh lifts veil on sordid side of London; Color-photo Studebaker ad shows Don Wyman and his father grinding metal while J.F. Rogers and son Peter perform heat-treating; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Ladysmith, CA249,95 €

Redier, Antoine.Livre Rare Book

La Guerre des femmes (Louise de Bettignies et Léonie Vanhoutte)

1946LCI-6754Paris, Editions de la vraie France 1946 1 in -8 broché 333 [p.p] La Guerre des femmes est le récit fondateur rendant hommage au premier grand réseau d'intelligence de la Grande Guerre dans le Nord occupé (le réseau Service de Renseignement RAMS), dirigé par Louise de Bettignies (« Alice ») et Léonie Vanhoutte (« Charlotte »). Cet exemplaire d'après-guerre (1946) revêt une valeur historique et symbolique considérable : il matérialise la filiation entre les héroïnes de 1914-1918 et la Résistance lilloise de 1940-1944, l'auteur et Léonie Vanhoutte dédicaçant l'ouvrage à Renée Legros (alias « Alice » dans la Résistance locale). Une provenance croisée d'une rareté insigne réunissant la signature du biographe, de l'héroïne du livre et de la destinataire résistante lilloise. Une donnée d'histoire mémorielle, de résistance féminine et de patrimoine lillois.

Le Chef d'Oeuvre Inconnu · Lille, France220,00 €

Livre Rare Book

Caractéristiques et Silhouettes d’Aeronefs Sovietiques

23406Sans lieu, Etat-Major Genéral des Forces Armées, 2ème Bureau, sans date (circa 1951), tiré à 100 exemplaires numérotés (n°84). Agrafé, 15,5 cm x 23,5 cm Photographies er descriptifs de 9 avions militaires soviétiques (LA-9 et 11, MIG – 15, YAK-17, TU-2, 10, 4, LI-2PS-84 et IL-12), tampon. Léger accroc au dos sinon bon état

Librairie Sedon · Rochefort, France200,00 €

Bothwell, Robert; Granatstein, J.L: EditorsMareMagnum

The Gouzenko Transcripts - The Evidence Presented to the Kellock-Taschereau Royal Commission of 1946

346 pages. Circa 1980s. "The editors sifted through 6,000 pages of the original Royal Commission report to produce this fascinating insight into the nature of espionage and the motives that led respected Canadians to betray their country's oath of secrecy. Reveals the full extent of Igor Gouzenko's testimony, and radically alters the existing information and opinions about the trial and about Gouzenko from previous books." - from back cover. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Half-title page removed. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Ladysmith, CA199,95 €

TILLIEUX, Maurice (scénario et dessin)Livre Rare Book

Félix Tome 1 : Les aventures de Félix

19771072941977 Editions Michel Deligne - 1977 - In-4, broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs - 136 planches illustrées en N&B

Librairie Le Père Pénard · Lyon, France190,00 €

BONNEAU, AlbertLivre Rare Book

Les Samouraïs du Soleil Pourpre (1931) - Les Mystères de Chinatown (1931) - Les Damnés de Sakhaline (1931) (3 romans reliés en 1 volume)

19311250791931 Editions Jules Tallandier - Collection "Voyages Lointains - Aventures Etranges" - 1931 - 3 romans reliés en 1 seul volume in-8, dos toilé, couvertures d'origine conservées - 124 + 126 + 126 pages - Illustrations en N&B in et hors texte

Librairie Le Père Pénard · Lyon, France180,00 €

Various ContributorsMareMagnum

The Illustrated London News - January 21, 1961

Features/Photos: JFK and his wife; The British Frigate Urchin - accused by Russia of spying; The Queen prepares for her tour of India and Pakistan; a pipelaying helicopter in Kent; The Finsteraarhorn - the highest and most elegant peak in the Bernese Alps - centrefold; Royal tour map; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine

RareNonFiction.com · Ladysmith, CA169,95 €

Victor AlexandrovLivre Rare Book

OS1 Services secrets de Staline contre Hitler

500356382Culture Art Loisirs Sans date. Ce livre de Victor Alexandrov publié en 1968 examine en détail les opérations secrètes menées par l'Union Soviétique pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il dévoile les mécanismes et stratégies employés par les services secrets staliniens pour contrer les plans d'Hitler et des forces de l'Axe

Démons et Merveilles · Joinville, France166,00 €

Laurence W Meynell, Born in 1899 holds reputation as one of Most Distinguished Thriller Novelists of Day, Inner Flap DJ OriginaBiblio.com

CAMOUFLAGE a Novel The in RARE Blue White & Yellow Color DustJacket Period Artwork of Night Scene of man Standing outsidedoor Holding Lantern & Man & Woman exiting Car

193026306W.P Nimmo Hay & Mitchell 1930 HBDJ 1930 STATED 1st published in Great Britain First edition VG/GOOD AS-IS Small Orange Hardcover Titled in Black on Spine Cvr light rub wear. Book Condition: VG Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD with unclipped dust jacket. Some shelf wear chips and tears to edges of dust jacket. Text itself in good condition clean pages and firm binding light Fox. 244 pgs NO ADS in Back Small Octavo 7 1/2" x 5" Tiny chips tears extremities & Spine DJ Ends. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. W.P Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, hardcover

BLUFF PARK RARE BOOKS · États-Unis195,00 $US≈ 164,99 €

Dufaux JeanLivre Rare Book

Jessica Blandy tome 1 à 14

1987wq776Dupuis, Novedi Repérages Album cartonné 1987 14 volumes cartonnés au format 22 * 29,4 cm, chaque volume comporte 48 pages, les 6 premiers volumes on été chez Novedi, puis du 7 au 24 chez Dupuis. Ici les 14 premiers donc les 6 premiers chez Novedi et les 8 suivant chez Dupuis dans la collection Repérages ; le volume 6 à un défaut de péliculage, trait blanc sur le péliculage des plats, sinon l'ensemble est en bel état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.

Abraxas-Libris · Bécherel, France160,00 €

Livre Rare Book

Règlement de Combat pour l'Infanterie de l'Armée Rouge 1942 IIème Partie (Bataillon Régiment)

1942169501942. Sans lieu Commissariat à la Défense 1942 - Cartonné dactylographié 21 5 cm x 27 5 cm 115+ 88+ 92 pages recto annotations manuscrites - Toutes les formes de combat unités de mitrailleuses et de lance-grenades unités de fusils-antichars unités de pistolets-mitrailleurs ... - Couv. muette bon état

Librairie Sedon · Rochefort, France150,00 €

BURNES (Alexandre), EYRIES (J.B., Traducteur)Livre Rare Book

Voyages de l’embouchure de l’Indus à Lahore, Caboul, Balkh et à Boukhara ; et retour par la Perse pendant les années 1831, 1832 et 1833. Traduits par J.-B.-B. Eyriès. Texte seul

1835PHO-2248Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1835, 3 volumes de texte in-8 (206 x 130 mm), 2 ff.n.ch., XI, 354 pp.; 2 ff.n.ch., VIII, 375 pp. ; 2 ff.n.ch., 392 pp., sans reliure, cachets retirés aux titres.