David Leitch Introduction (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Hardcover book, dust wrapper is good+ to very good; book is very good+ to near fine (top closed text edge which is red has 1" area of spotting) - all text and black-and-white images are fine and clear. 296 pages. Perhaps signed by John LeCarre - signature is not accurately deciferable. First English edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Text/BRAND NEW. Red linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/NF w/trace rub to upper front corner tip. DJ/VG; Strong & sound with nips, chips, & small losses to upper edges & showing faint discoloration. An examination of the life of Harold Adrian Russell "Kim: Philby (1912 - 1988), high ranking British intelligence officer who served as an operative of the NKVD (predecessor to the KGB) and KGB, and member of the Cambridge Five. Based on hundreds of interviews in the Western world. Authors Page, Leitch and Knightley are members of the Insight Team of The Sunday Times in London. As le Carré points out the political motive of Kim Philby remains elusive; it is said that Stalin suspect him of being a "triple agent". Much lore surrounds Philby, giving rise to various interpretations in fiction and film. His is a fantastic tale, and this is journalism at its best. Fine copy in a lesser dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear, foxing & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.PRIORITY SHIPPING PROVIDED IN THE USA FOR THE PRICE OF MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Book Club Edition. Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1968 (date stated on title page). Book Club Edition (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection). As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Appears Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, quite tight, straight and square, with deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full raspberry-colored cloth, color consistent throughout, with bright gilt title, etc., to spine, unmarked black endpapers, all corners square and sharp, and a book club deboss to lower back board. The Dust Jacket is fully intact, bright and flawless, with BOMC notation to front flap and no price. See photos. x + 300 pages. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". Written before the exposure of Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross as members of the Cambridge Five or Cambridge Spies, this history of espionage in the UK relates the involvement of Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess in the spy ring as they delivered British, and American, secrets to the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the early 1960s, and their exposure as moles by British Intelligence. Introduction by John Le Carré, and three sections of unnumbered pages of photographs. The authors all worked for the Sunday Times. We also have Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt by Barrie Penrose and Simon Freeman for sale. …