The Spy in Black

Author: CLOUSTON, J. Storer (1870-1944)
Title: The Spy in Black
Publication: New York: George H. Doran Company. 1918

Description: First U.S. Edition. Octavo, pp. 306. Orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in pictorial dustjacket. The thrilling story of a German Navel spy dropped of from his U-boat onto the English coast equipped with a familiar type of English motorcycle to rendezvous with a mysterious personage in the vicinity of the British Grand Fleet. Otto Penzler's copy. Some bumping to the head and tail caps and to the corners, slight marking to the cloth, slight dustiness to the edges. Textblock is very clean. Dustwrapper shows some marking to all faces, some water marking to spine panel, which is also slightly tanned. Chipping to the top and bottom edges, some small closed tears, some loss to the corner between the front panel and the inner flap. Tape reinforcement to the top and bottom of the dustwrapper at the spine. A very good example of a book scarce in a dustjacket.

Seller ID: 44915

Subject: Literature



Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers on London's fashionable King's Road, after 40+ years of bookselling in the capital, Adrian relocated to Royal Tunbridge Wells.

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