Assignment Brittany, First Edition (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Pocket Books edition, second printing # 235 of this stand-alone thriller / war novel. Light edgewear. Slight spine slant. Age toning to the cover and pages. A 1-inch closed tear to the first summary page along the gutter of the book - a printer's error. In Good Condition.

Pocket, New York, 1943. Softcover, 335 pp. 1st softcover edition from this publisher. World War II adventure story. Very good with edge wear to wraps, some pale spotting to rear endpapers. Text pages are clean and bright.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [1st printing, Mar. 1963; #0336. Cover art is uncredited. Creasing; some roll; short tear at lower front cover edge; mild tanning and light rubbing. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Near Fine with light rubbing.

Paperback. first edition thus. 1267 about very good , creases paperback,

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Thus. In color pictorail wraps, mm, 335pp+ads. (light shelfwear and fading) Size: Mass Market Paperback. Book.

softcover. Condition: VG tight and white. #235.

Paperback. first PB. 235, very good , creases (WW2 SPY NOVEL), paperback,

Paperback. first thus. 0336 very good - fine, reading crease paperback,

Paperback. first PB. 235, very good +, creases (WW2 SPY NOVEL), paperback,

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Pocket Books number 235; first printing, August 1943, stated; rear endpapers list Pocket Books up to this title; page edges tinted red (here still quite bright) and red endpapers; vivid cover art by Leo Manso. A former owner name on the front endpaper, else unmarked; spine uncreased though slanted and edgeworn; some creasing and edgewear to the wraps; sleeve protected.

Paperback. first PB. 235, very good -fine, , reading crease (WW2 SPY NOVEL), paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. DJ: nominal edge wear. Burgundy boards with gold gilt spine text. Else tight and square. May require additional shipping due to size/weight, amount according to USPS, weight, and destination. SPIES/ESPIONAGE/MYSTERY/THRILLER.

Paperback. first PB. 235, almost near fine, (WW2 SPY NOVEL), paperback,

Stapled. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. Ruzzie Green (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. The May 30, 1942 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably part 2 of 8 of TCOT Careless Kitten, a Perry Mason novel by Erle Stanley Gardner. Other fiction includes parts 5 of 8 of Assignment Brittany, a suspense novel by Helen MacInnes. Cover art by Ruzzie Green (Homecoming Kiss). Soiling to the front cover. There is a7.5" horizontal closed tear on pages 95 - 100 & the back cover a little more than half way down the fore edge. The back cover has a 1.5" x 1" chip at the lower corner. There are cutouts on pages 37/38 (a cartoon on page 38 the affects part of the GM ad on page 37) and 87/88 (a poem at the bottom of page 88 that affects the Hartford Insurance ad on page 87). The cutouts don't affect the text of any articles or stories. A fair to good copy with a Perry Mason serial installment.

Stapled. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. James W. Schucker (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. The June 6, 1942 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably part 3 of 8 of TCOT Careless Kitten, a Perry Mason novel by Erle Stanley Gardner. Other fiction includes parts 6 of 8 of Assignment Brittany, a suspense novel by Helen MacInnes. Articles include Canada Did It, on price fixing by Congressman Al Gore (father of senator & presidential candidate Al Gore). Cover art by James W. Schucker (Knitting for the War Effort). Light edge wear with a few small chips & closed tears to the covers. The magazine has been exposed to moisture as there is some waviness to the lower half of the pages and some bleed from the color ads throughout. A fair to good copy with a Perry Mason serial installment and an interesting article by a prominent politician.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Pocket Books edition (No. 235) of 1942 espionage novel. Near fine, with minor wear at corner of spine crown and a touch of rubbing, still a nice bright unread copy.

Stapled. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cover art by Ivan Dmitri (illustrator). First Edition. The May 16, 1942 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes part 3 of 8 of Assignment Brittany, a suspense novel by Helen MacInnes and part 7 of 7 (conclusion) of Ride the Man Down, a western novel by Luke Short. Cover art by Ivan Dmitri (Flight Squadron). Some edge wear & soiling to the covers. A flawed but good copy that unfortunately mutilates the Faulkner story.

Stapled. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cover art by W.W. Calvert (illustrator). First Edition. The May 9, 1942 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes part 2 of 8 of Assignment Brittany, a suspense novel by Helen MacInnes and part 6 of 7 of Ride the Man Down, a western novel by Luke Short. Cover art by W.W. Calvert (Two Kid Goats). Some edge wear & soiling to the covers. Its major flaw is missing pages 71 - Upjohn ad/72 - Insurance Company of North America ad, & 73 - last page of What Hitler Wants You to Think article/74 - continuation page of the Bear, a short story by William Faulkner. A flawed but good copy that unfortunately mutilates the Faulkner story.

Condition: Good. 1967. First edition thus. 336 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Spine slightly rolled.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, fourth impression. Brown cloth-covered boards, white titles on spine. Bumped extremities. Text block edges starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 12mo. Second World War thriller in which a French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official. Book produced to War Economy Standards.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus, first printing. "This edition first published published in the United States of America, jointly" statement to the copyright page. Complete and unabridged espionage, politics, spy, and secret agent novels omnibus with new jacket art and a handsome binding. A presentable first printing collectible. Slight rubbing to the lower spine edge and corner tips, else near fine, square and firm in polished imitation burgundy leather boards with gilt embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine, red-and-white headband and tail-band, blue Helen MacInnes patterned end-papers; in a near fine dust jacket with un-credited spy couple action art to the front panel, author photo to the rear panel, with a few minor lamination wrinkle flaws. Thick octavo; 878 pages. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable, sleeve, after scanning for this entry.

x, 373 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth. First US edition. Tiny 1943 ink ownership signature at corner of front free endpaper; a little tanning to endsheets; spine a little tanned; tight and sound.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Australian Edition. Previous owners name on front fixed end paper.

Paperback. First Edition. Pocket Books 235. A near fine copy. Cover art by Leo Manso.; Small octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. There Are No Marks Or Tears Inside The Book. The Binding Is Tight. The Jacket Has Some Wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition. Good in Good dust jacket. Dust jacket colors are faded, and it has some chipping along edges, minor tearing, and some creasing along folds. Dust jacket is now in protective mylar. Sticker residue to FFEP and Read end paper. Previous owner's stamp on dedication page. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Markings on inside of back board. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Stapled. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Cover art by Charles Kaiser, Ruzzie Green, James W. Schucker, W.W. Calvert, Fred Ludekens, Norman Rockwell & Rudy Arnold (illustrator). First Edition. The May 23 & 30, June 6, 13, 20, & 27, & July 11, 1942 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably parts 1 - 6 & 8 of 8 of TCOT Careless Kitten, a Perry Mason novel by Erle Stanley Gardner. Precedes book publication. Other fiction includes parts 4 - 8 of 8 of Assignment Brittany, a suspense novel by Helen MacInnes, and December 6th (5/23) & The Dumb Dutchman (7/11), short stories by C S Forester. Articles include Canada Did It (6/6), on price fixing by Congressman Al Gore (father of senator & presidential candidate Al Gore), and the Case for Minorities, an article on the importance of diversity in the US by Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie! Cover art by Charles Kaiser (5/23 - Ugly Tie), Ruzzie Green (Homecoming Kiss), James W. Schucker (Knitting for the War Effort), W.W. Calvert (Closeup of Bald Eagle), Fred Ludekens (Woman at Dude Ranch), Norman Rockwell (Willie Gillis in a Blackout), & Rudy Arnold (Ammo). Condition issues as follows: 5/23 - pages 51/54 loose from the top staple of the binding, 5/30 - missing pages 7 - Goodrich ad/8 - Maxwell House Coffee ad & back cover plus some light wrinkling & bleed due to dampness, & 6/27 - 1" x .75" triangular chip mid way down the fore edge of the front cove. A very good set with a nice, and hard to assemble, run of Perry Mason serial installments. A heavy & oversize set that may require additional postage.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. True UK first edition, first printing of this World War II-era spy novel, written by a master of the espionage thriller. Married to an MI6 agent, MacInnes was a Scottish-American librarian-turned-novelist "with the Buchan touch" (Belfast Telegraph). This book, her second, follows a British undercover agent who has been dropped by plane into Nazi-occupied Brittany by night. Having taken on the identity of a French farmer, he must gather information to pass on the resistance in Mont Saint-Michel. Published in the middle of the war, this work was handed out by Allied officials as part of their training course for agents headed into undercover work in occupied France. It is common in contemporary but later printings, and quite scarce in the first printing. Octavo. 7.25'' x 5''. Original full brown cloth, spine lettered in white. In original unclipped (9') pictorial dust jacket. Yellow topstain. 322 pages. Spine lean. Jacket with a few closed tears to folds, some shallow edgewear, gentle toning. Book with a touch of sunning to spine ends, a few spots and scattered foxing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.