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Auction: 284 - Bond, Share & Americana Mailbid & Internet Exclusive
Lot: 1252

Espionage: History of Spying. Good group of seven books about spying, both historic and how-to, mostly in the US, throughout history. "Finger Prints / Secret Service / Crime Detection," T.G. Cooke, FPE, Chicago, Finger Print Publishing Assn, [1930], 12mo, blue cloth with black lettering, first few leaves detached but present. "General Washington´s Spies on Long Island and in New York," Morton Pennypacker, Brooklyn, Long Island Historical Society, 1939, 8vo, red cloth with black design. Water damage to front cover, but interior very good. "The Spy in America," George S. Bryan, Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1943, stated first ed, 8vo, black cloth, no jacket. "The Art of Spying," Ronald Seth, New York, Philosophical Library, 1957, small 8vo, black cloth, original [damaged] jacket. "The Story of the Secret Service," Ferdinand Kuhn, NY, Random House, 1957, small 8vo, red cloth, library spine with handwritten spine title, call number, illustrated front board. "The Book of Spies," Brian Innes, NY, Grosset & Dunlap, [1966?], folio, green cloth with black design, original dust jacket, illustrated wraps. "Army Surveillance in America, 1775-1980," Joan M. Jensen, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1991, 8vo, gray cloth, orig dust jacket. Excepting stated defects, generally in very good condition or better. Estimate US$ 40-50

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