Advert Description
Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. "The Spy's Bedside Book", an anthology edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene - Rupert Hart-Davis, London - 1957 first UK edition first printing - 15cmx13cm - condition: very good in very good first issue dust jacket in mylar cover
Describes the hazards and rewards of the spy trade, along with many tricks of the trade. Also includes several short stories and poems by various writers who have touched on the subject. Inscribed to British actor Alan Cooke by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene (no relation) on the front endpaper. Hugh Greene was head of The German Service at the BBC during WWII, became Director-General of the BBC, and in 1969 became chairman of The Bodley Head. An uncommon title in the Greene canon, with signed copies rarely if ever surfacing. About fine in a near fine (or better) dust wrapper. On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's "The Spy's Bedside Book" provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. This classic anthology, with a new introduction by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington, includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan 67570563
