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Moscow Quadrille

Author(s): Allbeury, Ted
Binding: Hardcover
Volume Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket: No
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Protection: Mylar-style
Edition: 1st Edition
Impression: 1st Impression
Language: English
Publisher Name: Peter Davies
Publication Year: 1976
Publication Place: UK
Book ID: 005678
Catalogue(s): Modern Fiction Firsts ◇ Fiction - Crime, Mysteries and Thrillers
First edition, first impression (true first). Prelims plus 154pp. In black cloth covered-boards with gilt lettering to spine. (Boards strong and clean, rubbed at edges, some spotting on text block edges). Internally neat, clean and tight, pages a little off-white at margins. In its original, dust jacket (slightly rubbed on corners, three tiny white marks on front). The dust jacket is now protected in an archival-quality mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of adhesives or tape. Ted Allbeury was a British author, writing mainly espionage fiction. He served as an intelligence office in the Special Operations Executive during the second world war, and is said to have been the only British Secret Agent who parachuted into Nazi Germany during the war and remained there until the Allied armies arrived. He wrote over forty novels, often drawing on his war time experience, some of which were published under the pen names Patrick Kelly and Richard Butler.
Keywords:
war fiction military fiction espionage fiction spy fiction

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