![Item #46919 Night of the Short Knives [Inscribed and Signed]. Burke Wilkinson](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46919.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1769791610)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1964]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.50); vi,278pp. Moderate edge wear to jacket margins, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "For Nell Everhard / with Best wishes from Burke..... More
Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. First American Edition. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; grey textured boards stamped in black; green topstain; 192pp. Price-clipped dust jacket edgeworn and creased; spine sunned; neat tape-mending to verso edges. Boards shelfworn; slight lean to spine but..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First American Edition Stated. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's cloth, blue topstain, in pictorial dust jacket by McKnight Kauffer retaining original price ($2.00); 275pp. Jacket quite chipped and rubbed at margins with smallish loss at spine crown, uneven but at times heavy foxing to verso, cloth..... More
![Item #33785 Enigma and Its Achilles Heel [Signed]. Hugh Skillen](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33785.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753479241)
Pinner, Middlesex: Hugh Skillen, 1992. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],225pp.; illus. Moderate wear and soil to jacket and boards, corners nudged; Very Good and sound overall. Signed by the author on title page. More
New York: Macmillan, 1954. First American Edition, first printing. Octavo (21cm); bound in original green cloth with red stamping to spine and front panel; 176pp. Missing dust jacket. Ex-library with shelf mark to base of spine and blank pocket to front pastedown. Mild shelfwear; brief spotting to cloth sizing; corners..... More
![Item #49366 Doctor No [Jacket title: Dr. No]. Ian Fleming](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/49366.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787834015)
New York: Macmillan Company, [1966]. Second US Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's two-toned boards, yellow topstain, in pictorial dust jacket by Jerome Kuhl retaining original price ($3.95); 188pp. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, very faint glue residue to jacket spine foot with small shelf mark else a Very Good, bright..... More
London: The Book Club, [1961]. Foyles' Book Club Edition. Octavo (19cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket by Cuthill; 191pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, verso rather foxed, corners nudged; Very Good and sound overall. The earliest UK book club edition, issued a year after the first. Foyles' had originally..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, [1966]. Second US Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's two-toned boards, blue topstain, in pictorial dust jacket by Jerome Kuhl retaining original price ($3.95); 191pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and board margins, glue residue to jacket spine foot from removed label (brief tape repair to verso) with..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First Edition, first impression, second state without extra skull detail to front board. Octavo; black cloth blocked in blind with human skull drawing and stamped eagle coin to each eye; illustrated dust jacket with 15s. net price and nineteen-line blurb to front flap; 318pp. Light shelfwear..... More
![Item #49246 James Bond 007 [Fourteen Volume Boxed Set]. Ian Fleming](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/49246.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787160783)
London: Penguin Books, 2002. First Thus, Limited to 2000 boxed sets though individual volumes are all reprints. Fourteen 12mo volumes (18cm); publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers, housed in original matching slipcase. Slipcase a bit worn with faint surface scratches, old duct tape repair to inferior, lacking the limitation bookmark. Individual..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, [1966]. Second US Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's paper-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket by Jerome Kuhl retaining original price ($3.95); [8],216pp. Light shelf wear, top textblock edge a bit foxed, else a Very Good, bright and sound example.The second US edition of the second James Bond..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First Edition, First Impression, State B with "shoot" now correctly spelled on page 10. Octavo; bound in state B (no priority given) linson cloth with foil-stamped title; illustrated dust jacket with 10s 6d price intact; 255, [1]pp. Rubbing and light bumping to boards; slight lean; binding..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, [1966]. Second US Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's two-toned boards, black topstain, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket by Jerome Kuhl; 189pp. Moderate wear to jacket and board margins, jacket flaps a bit soiled and spine cocked; About Very Good overall. The second US edition of the third..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First Edition, First Issue, Binding A, in later jacket. Small octavo (19.3cm); at least fourth-issue dust jacket with publisher's "16s net / in UK only / 80p net" sticker over printed price of 10s.6d net; publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering; gray marbled endpapers; [95]pp with..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First Edition, First Issue, Binding A, in first state dust jacket. Small octavo (19.3cm); publisher's illustrated dust jacket with 10s. 6d. net price present; publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering; gray marbled endpapers; [95]pp with all errors present. Jacket clean aside from light rubbing along bottom..... More
New York: NAL / New American Library, 1963. First American Edition, with First Printing stated. Octavo; black cloth-backed boards; yellow topstain; illustrated dust jacket with $4.50 price intact; 299pp. Fading to spine ends; chip to to front corner of boards. Dust jacket rubbed with chip to crown; a Very Good..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First Edition, First Issue. Octavo (19cm); brown blind-stamped boards with gold lettering at spine; 253pp. Lacks dust jacket. Boards bumped and scuffed; dime-sized dampstain at front panel. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages toned. Former owner’s name appears in blue ink at ffep. Very Good..... More
London: The Book Club, [1965]. Foyles' Book Club Edition. Small octavo (19cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket by Cuthill; 184pp. Light shelf wear, brief scattered soil to rear dust jacket panel, textblock margins rather foxed; still a Very Good, bright and sound example. The earliest book club edition of..... More
New York: 1949–1975. Collection of three manuscript volumes recording the dinners hosted by NATO ambassador John Chambers Hughes (1891–1970) and his wife Margaret Kelly Hughes (1893–1980). Collection comprised of the following:First volume covering the years 1949 to 1951. Octavo (19cm.); bright green straight grained morocco lettered and ruled in gilt;..... More
![Item #48891 The Little Drummer Girl [Signed]. John Le Carré](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48891.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785950792)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First American Edition. Signed by John Le Carre on a tipped in leaf at preliminaries; one of about 200 copies, per Ahearn. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in maroon and white decorative dust jacket; [10],429pp. Light shelfwear and boards bow slightly at corners; binding sound..... More
![Item #49186 The Secret Pilgrim [Signed]. John Le Carre](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/49186.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787518290)
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. First Edition. Signed by John Le Carre at title page without inscription. Octavo; blue cloth stamped in gilt; illustrated dust jacket; 335pp. Boards show light rubbing and spotting to cloth sizing. Unclipped dust jacket shows mild shelfwear; Very Good or better. More
![Item #28116 On Wings of Eagles [Signed]. Ken Follett](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28116.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700431925)
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1983. First Edition. Signed by Ken Follett with brief inscription to previous owner at half title. Octavo. 444 pp. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue and ivory boards stamped in silver; map endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket lightly worn and creased along..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. First American Edition. Octavo; black boards stamped in orange; red topstain; photo-illustrated dust jacket with $3.95 price intact; 287pp. Mild shelfwear to boards; binding sound; bookseller ticket of Paul Elder's of San Francisco to rear pastedown; light creasing and some shallow chipping to dust jacket;..... More
![Item #46828 Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring [Signed by Earley]. Pete Earley](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46828.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768922064)
New York: Bantam Books, 1988. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped dust jacket; [12],385pp. Light edge wear, dust jacket a bit yellowed, else a Very Good or better example. Signed by the author on title page. More
![Item #49062 On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World [Inscribed and Signed by Steele]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/49062.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1786542495)
Fairfax, VA: AFCEA International Press, [2000]. Reprint. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [6],xi,[1],495pp. Very light wear to jacket, else Fine. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "John - Go Navy [?] - This stuff will make you better. Semper Fi, Robert." More