John Mccarry, First Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A real nice clean unmarked 160 page first edition hardcover with a nice dust jacket. Describes the origins and continuing popularity of county fairs, and visits the exhibits, animals, entertainment, carnival attractions, and commercial vendors Size: 11h x 9 1/2w. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of short stories. Featured are The End of the String by Charles McCarry, Section 7 (A) (Operational) by Lee Child, Destiny City by James Grady, Neighbors by Joseph Finder, East of Suez, West of Charing Cross Road by John Lawton, Father's Day by John Weisman, Casey at the Bat by Stephen Hunter, Max is Calling by Gayle Lynds, The Interrogator by David Morrell, Sleeping with my Assassin by Andrew Klavan, The Hamburg Redemption by Robert Wilson, The Courier by Dan Fesperman, Hedged In by Stella Rimington, You Know What's Going On by Olen Steihnauer. SIGNED by Joseph Finder on the title page. A limited hardcover edition was also produced. In fine condition. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. HC/DJ - in NEW/NEW condition. Navy boards with silver lettering. DJ is un-clipped; $30.00 on inner flap. Red end-papers. Photo Illustrated Jacket and SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Photographer Randy Olson on Dedication page (circle is the child in the photography with an arrow pointing out 'ME' - 'FOR LEON, BEST, R. OLSON'. (photo included). Prolifically Illust. throughout in Color Photographs. Collectible, MINT condition copy! 4to. 160pp. --AM (PM) McCarry. Signed by Illustrator.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Randy Olson (photographs) (illustrator). First Edition. Probably signed by author in a lengthy inscription on front end paper. Otherwise 'as new'. No other marks. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 160pp. The history of the American country fair, first held in 1811 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Very well illustrated with colour photographs in true National Geographic style. Very scarce in the UK. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 11.25 x 9.5 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Kaz Chiba (Jacket photograph) and John McCarry (Au (illustrator). 476, [4] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Alex Albert, all best Chas McCarry. DJ has some wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. Charles McCarry (June 14, 1930 - February 26, 2019) was an American writer, primarily of spy fiction, and a former undercover operative for the Central Intelligence Agency. McCarry was born in Pittsfield, and lived in Virginia. McCarry began his writing career in the United States Army as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes. He served from 1948 to 1951 and achieved the rank of sergeant. He received initial training at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was stationed in Germany for almost two years and at Camp Pickett, Virginia for about a year. After his army service, he was a speechwriter in the early Administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1958, at the invitation of Cord Meyer, he accepted a post with the CIA, for whom he traveled the globe as a deep cover operative. He took a leave of absence to work for the 1960 Nixon campaign, writing for vice-presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge. He left the CIA for the last time in 1967, becoming a writer of spy novels. McCarry was also an editor-at-large for National Geographic and contributed pieces to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Saturday Evening Post, and other national publications. Charles McCarry is considered by many to be the master of American spy fiction, brilliantly staking his claim with such international bestsellers as The Tears of Autumn and The Miernik Dossier. A spy writer's spy writer, he has been lauded by the critics and his peers. George V. Higgins wrote Charles McCarry is the Lord's best combination of spellbinding storyteller and silken prose writer. Intelligent and enthralling, said Eric Ambler, and Jeffrey Archer praised writing that makes one put the book down and gasp. In his magnificent new novel, McCarry returns to the world of his legendary character, Paul Christopher, the crack intelligence agent who is as skilled at choosing a fine wine as he is at tradecraft, at once elegant and dangerous, sophisticated and rough-and-ready. As the novel begins, Paul Christopher, now an aging but remarkably fit 70ish, is dining at home with his cousin Horace, also an ex-agent. Dinner is delicious and uneventful. A day later, Paul has vanished. The months pass, Paul's ashes are delivered by a Chinese official to the American consulate in Beijing and a memorial service is held in Washington. But Horace is not convinced that Paul is dead and, enlisting the support of four other retired colleagues, a sort of all-star backfield of the old Outfit, Horace gets the Old Boys back in the game to find Paul Christopher. Harassed by American intelligence, hunted by terrorists, Horace Christopher and the Old Boys travel the globe, from Xinjiang to Brazil, from Rome to Tel Aviv, Budapest to Moscow, in search of Paul and the unspeakably dangerous truth. Derived from a Kirkus review: A collection of retired intelligence agents comes to the aid of the very dashing Christopher family of spies last seen in McCarry's 1991 Second Sight. Paul Christopher is dead. Possibly. A packet of ashes has arrived from western China, where the retired spook had spent ten years as a prisoner. Why on earth would he go back to such an awful scene? And why isn't the provenance of the cremains any better than it is? These and other questions plague Paul's cousin Horace Hubbard, who was also in the family spying business until caught stealing a national election. Horace rather thinks that Paul has taken the opportunity to drop out of the scenery, and, indeed, following Paul's state funeral, clues lead Horace to a hollowed-out table leg in his cousin's house wherein are cached clues suggesting that Paul has headed for central Asia on a hunt for his nonagenarian mum and a glass vial containing a Roman intelligence officer's eyewitness report of events in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Christopher's mother, a German national who lived enough lives for five ordinary mortals, salvaged the document from Nazi Germany and has been carrying it about ever since. Horace rounds up a group of elderly colleagues and begins a search for Paul that takes him to China, Bulgaria, Turkey, South America, and numerous "-stans." He must be rather careful, since there is a fatwa out on him. Ibn Awad, an Islamic maniac Horace had supposedly killed in the line of business, is not only alive, but very much in the hunt for that interesting bit of biblical history and very unhappy about that murder attempt. After he eliminates Horace, Ibn Awad plans to blow up numerous satanic cities with the old Soviet A-bombs he's been hoarding, so the Old Boys have to keep an eye out for radiation. There are numerous narrow escapes from goons, police, armies, and Arabs, and a lot of interesting side trips well off the beaten tourist-track. Excellent spy thriller in the Anglo-American style. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].