Boris Morros (15 results)
Published by Dell F Series. New York: Dell Publishing Co. 1959
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, U.S.A.GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. first edition. F-99 very good - fine, reading crease mti, ernest borgnine paperback.
Published by Dell, New York 1959
- Softcover
Seller: Steve Kilby, Guelph, CanadaSteve Kilby
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Good+. First Dell printing. Light creases to the spine. Slight wear to the edges. Richard Powers (illustrator).
Published by Dell, New York 1959
- First Edition
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, U.S.A.Orielis' Books
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Add to basketMass Market Paperbook. Condition: Very Good-. 1st Paperback printing. Spine a bit creased and scuffed, reading crease. Minor edge wear and rubbing. Overall, a nice copy. ; Dell F99, cover price 50c. The cover references a movie, Man on a String, starring Ernest Borgnine, based on this book. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 288 pages; " He hate…d violence. He had never lived with danger. He had worked for years in the public limelight. He was probably one of the least likely candidates to walk the deadly tightrope of counter-espionage . . . But one day in 1947 that's exactly what Boris Morros did. " " Boris Morros was a successful Hollywood producer and a highly regarded musician and impresario. His life had been a legendary success story even in the flamboyant annals of show business. "What chain of events in 1936 led him into serving the interests of a Soviet spy ring? " What even more dramatic events brought him into the office of the FBI in 1947 to take on the role of a United States counter-spy? " How did Morros manage to deceive Communist agents and help provide the evidence which resulted in the exposure and conviction of the leaders of the spy ring? " This book, for the first time, unfolds the entire drama of the ten-year ordeal of Boris Morros. ".
Language: English
Published by Viking Press, NY 1959
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, U.S.A.Dorley House Books, Inc.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st printing; dj w/lite wear only, clipped price, in mylar; blue w/gilt spine title;s rubbed edges; 248 clean, unmarked pages.
Language: English
Published by Werner Laurie, London 1959
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Raven and the Writing Desk, Ruawai, New ZealandThe Raven and the Writing Desk
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Age Marks, Yellowing. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn, Age Marks. First.
Published by Viking Press, New York, NY 1959
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, U.S.A.Riverow Bookshop
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good condition./No Dustjacket. New York, NY: Viking Press. Good condition./No Dustjacket. 1959. 8vo., 248 pp. . Not Illustrated (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Viking Press 1959
- Hardcover
Seller: Else Fine Booksellers, Tacoma, U.S.A.Else Fine Booksellers
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 248 pages. Adapted into a feature film in 1960 with Ernest Borgnine. Signed and dated in the year of publication in Hollywood by previous owner Rosalie Stewart, presumably the same Stewart who was one of the first female producers of Broadway plays in the 1920s.…Sunning to the upper board edges and spine, light chipping to the jacket, not price clipped. The fantastic story of an American double agent.
Published by Viking 1959
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, U.S.A.J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear, chips.
More imagesPublished by Werner Laurie 1959
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Phoenix Books NZ, Waimate, New ZealandPhoenix Books NZ
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. My Ten Years as a Counterspy. By Boris Morros. Hardback, ex library, tape marks, tanned and foxing spots, minor marks. Dust jacket scuffed, chipped and marked. Publisher: Viking, New York, 1959, 1st edition ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent… free by courier postage within New Zealand.
Published by Werner Laurie London 1959 1959
- First Edition
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, AustraliaAndrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne
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Add to basket1st edition dust jacket Very Good octavo 224pp., b/w pls., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Account by a Russian Double Agent. Unbelievable but a rattling good read. Corner clipped from ffep o/w VG.
Published by Werner Laurie London 1959 1959
- First Edition
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, AustraliaAndrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne
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Add to basket1st edition dust jacket Near Fine octavo 224pp., b/w pls., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Account by a Russian Double Agent. Unbelievable but a rattling good read.
Published by The Viking Press, Inc, New York 1959
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. [8], 248 pages. The dust jacket is taped to the boards. The dust jacket has wear, tears (some repaired with tape), and soiling. Some endpaper discoloration. Boris Morros (January… 1, 1891 January 8, 1963) was an American Communist Party member, Soviet agent, and FBI double agent. He also worked at Paramount Pictures, where he produced films as well as supervising their music department. In 1934, he was enlisted as a Soviet spy, following which time Vasily Zarubin became his first contact in 1936. The mysterious "Mr. Guver" letter, sent to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1943 from an anonymous source, named Morros as an agent working with Soviet intelligence and identified Elizabeth Zarubina as Morros' contact. In December 1943, Zarubina drove with Morros to Connecticut, where they met with Alfred Stern and his wife Martha Dodd Stern. Soviet intelligence wanted to use an investment from the Sterns in Morros' sheet music company to serve as cover for espionage. The Sterns invested $130,000 in the Boris Morros Music Company. In 1947, Morros became a counterspy for the FBI. He reported on Jack Soble and members of the Soble spy ring, while also passing low-level secrets and misinformation back to Moscow. Morros' codename in Soviet intelligence and the Venona files was "FROST." As a double-agent for the FBI, Morros solicited funds from the MGB (the Soviet intelligence service) to create a U.S. television network. Like the Boris Morros Music Company, but the MGB never funded the venture. Charles Samuels (September 15, 1902, in Brooklyn, New York April 27, 1982, in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) was an American journalist, and writer best known for his biographies of celebrities, He penned as-told-to autobiographies for Buster Keaton (My Wonderful World of Slapstick) and Ethel Waters (His Eye is on the Sparrow) which was a best seller. Among his other books were Magnificent Rube: The Life and Gaudy Times of Tex Rickard and The King: A Biography of Clark Gable. Samuels began his career as a sports and feature writer with the Brooklyn Eagle in 1923. His book with Boris Morros, My Ten Years as a Counterspy was made into the film, Man on a String (1960), starring Ernest Borgnine. The title of another, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, about Evelyn Nesbit, was used in the 1955 movie. He was the recipient of the Edgar Allan Poe award (now called the Edgar Award) in 1957 for Night Fell on Georgia (written with his wife Louise Samuels). Samuels, who wrote thousands of magazine and newspaper articles, also helped write the newspaper columns of Ben Hecht and Billy Rose. He was the New York City Editor of Paramount News. Derived from a Kirkus review: In February of 1957 the Justice Department announced that, for ten years, the Hollywood producer and impresario, Boris Morros, had been a counterspy for the FBI. His story -- an extended scenario, written in collaboration, manifests the nimble virtuosity which characterized his undercover operations. He was born in Russia in 1895, was a concert cellist at the age of 8, left in 1922 and became music director for the Paramount theatres in New York. In 1935 he went to Hollywood for Paramount, at which time, and later in 1939, he was approached by a Russian agent. Under pressure of threat to his family in Russia he agreed to become part of a spy network carrying information to the NKVD. He served as the business cover for Jack Soble, Alfred K. Stern, Martha Dodd, the daughter of ex-ambassador William E. Dodd, finally on July 14, 1947 (Bastille Day) he informed the FBI of the procedures. He was asked by the FBI to maintain his contacts: his constant shuffling between New York, Hollywood, Paris, Vienna, Moscow, for movie and T.V. rights, provided the perfect cover-up -- for both sides. His assignments for the Russians? Providing dossiers to "get something on" John Foster Dulles, Governor Dewey, Senator Benton, Senator Helen Douglas, Cardinal Spellman. In Munich he was warned by the FBI to return to the U.S.: Jack and Myra Soble and Jacob Albam were about to be arrested; his services were over except for the trial. Earlier in this book Boris Morros explains that his activities as undercover agent for the Communists and for the FBI seemed to him like the fantasies he created in Hollywood. Today this seems an accurate assessment.
Published by Viking, New York 1959
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, U.S.A.Rare Book Cellar
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Foxing on side text block edge and spine. Sunned spine. First Edition; 2nd Printing before publication stated.
Published by New York Viking Press 1959 1959
- First Edition
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition, First Printing. Signed presentation copy from Boris Morros inscribed: ÒPat, Hope you will enjoy this simple story. We live in a great country. LetÕs make it the strongest. Sincerely, Boris. Xmas, 1958Ó. Laid in is a printed Christmas illustrated gift tag presenting the book from Mr. & Mrs. Morros. The book was off…icially published January 1, 1959. Fading to spine, else very good in bright dust with a few small tears. Boris MorrosÕs life was a strange tale of a man who was successfully working in Hollywood while at the same time being a spy for Russia who eventually turned and became a double agent for the FBI. Morros was a Russian born (1891) independent film producer, composer and musical director, In the U.S. from 1922. Morros, who was employed by Paramount Pictures, worked there in several capacities. Morros was the musical director for John FordÕs Stagecoach (1939), W.C. FieldÕs Poppy (1936), Ernst LubitschÕs BluebeardÕs Eighth Wife (1938) and dozens of other films. As a producer he created such films as The Flying Deuces (1939) with Laurel and Hardy and Second Chorus (1940) with Paulette Goddard and Fred Astaire. Morros also worked with such directors as Cecil B. DeMille, Lewis Milestone, Raoul Walsh and many others. Morros was also the music director at Paramount, where he conducted the music of such composers as George Antheil, among others. Morros was revealed as a Soviet spy (recruited in 1934 and code-named "Frost") and FBI double agent (from 1947). This book was filmed in 1960 as "Man on a String" and directed by Andre De Toth with Ernest Borgnine in the role of Morros, with actors Colleen Dewhurst, Kerwin Matthews, Gleen Corbett, Alexander Scourby, etc.
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, U.S.A.Riverow Bookshop
Contact seller5-star sellerLetter. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1935. Letter. Tls; Boris Morros was an American Communist Party member, Soviet Agent, and FBI Double Agent . 4to., 1 pp., light water stains, does not overlap text; crease due to folding, does not impact text legibility; very light chipping and folding on paper edges and… corners .
