Verlag: Free Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0684864223 ISBN 13: 9780684864228
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated, 2000
ISBN 10: 068486780X ISBN 13: 9780684867809
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. 1st Touchstone Ed. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: Free Press, 1998., 1998
ISBN 10: 0002559447 ISBN 13: 9780002559447
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1998
ISBN 10: 0571194036 ISBN 13: 9780571194032
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2007
ISBN 10: 0750948353 ISBN 13: 9780750948357
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Prentice Hall PTR, 1988
ISBN 10: 0023796227 ISBN 13: 9780023796227
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: HarperCollins 18/10/1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 000653063X ISBN 13: 9780006530633
Anbieter: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 2000
ISBN 10: 0007100396 ISBN 13: 9780007100392
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). The secret of SOE's code war revealed for the first time! 'As a comedy about the British at war, Leo Marks's book ranks with the fiction of Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh.' Observer / This is the witty, engrossing and highly personalised account of Leo Marks's experiences during the Second World War. He worked for the SOE -- responsible for placing, monitoring and communicating with all British secret agents working in enemy territory. Marks played a crucial role, re-inventing how agents sent coded messages back to London and using every trick in the book to get his way. / Between Silk and Cyanide is a great mixture of high level espionage, cynical commentary on government power struggles, human feeling for the agents risking everything for the war effort, and a keen sense of the absurd. 'Leo Marks never made it into the field himself. But his memoirs are as explosive as any sabotage conducted by those who did! Leo Marks never once loses contact with the personal courage and sufferings of the agents in the field, the reality which so shames the Whitehall warriors in the eyes of posterity! His tale is by turns fiery, scabrous, infuriating and deeply tragic. The eyes mist over, the throat constricts; the heart thumps. I found Between Silk and Cyanide impossible to put down.' DONALD CAMERON WATT, Independent 'Irrepressibly witty and readable chronicle of a Candide in the madhouse of secret bureaucracy! It's made up of reconstructed dialogue and amazing anecdote. Many readers who think they are allergic to Maths will be astounded to find themselves reading and even grasping the devilish poetry of figure-ciphering! But at the centre of the Book is the black mystery of the worst disaster of Britain's secret war. The fun and satire of Between Silk and Cyanide sparkle against a dark background of anger and grief.' Neal Ascherson, Observer. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Souvenir Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0285635328 ISBN 13: 9780285635326
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. Marks, Elena Gaussen (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Verlag: The Free Press, New York, 1999
ISBN 10: 0684864223 ISBN 13: 9780684864228
Anbieter: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA-FABA-IOBA), DeLand, FL, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Previous owner's name under dust jacket flap. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo; 612 pages with index. .[a] spellbinding real-life thriller. Marks is a natural storyteller who brilliantly links the highly technical issue of codes and ciphers to the fates of individual agents. [The New York Times Book Review, David Stafford.] Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
Verlag: New York: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster) (1998) dj, 1998
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover first edition - First US printing. A memoir by the son of the bookseller at 84 Charing Cross Road. In 1942, at 22 years old, Leo Marks left his father's famous London bookshop and went off to fight the war. He became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive (SOE), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques of the Allies and trained some of the most famous agents dropped into occupied Europe, including "the White Rabbit" and Violette Szabo. Although this book displays Marks's keen sense of the absurd and his wry wit, it is even more a book which celebrates individual courage and endeavor, as it never loses sight of the human cost and horror of war. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 614 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Verlag: Free Press, (New York), 1999
ISBN 10: 0684864223 ISBN 13: 9780684864228
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First American edition. 614pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Spine ends bumped, else fine in fine dustwrapper.
Verlag: The Folio Society
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A very good condition book including the original slipcase. The slipcase shows some scuffing. A clear, bright and tightly bound copy.
Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket (cryptography, Great Britain, Special Operations Executive, history, biography).
Verlag: Folio Society, 2013
Anbieter: Saint Georges English Bookshop, Berlin, Deutschland
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Folio Society hardcover in near mint condition, appears unread. No slip case. Ships from Berlin Bookshop bxn48.
Verlag: The Folio Society, London, 2013
Anbieter: Any Amount of Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Large 8vo. pp xviii, 579. Brown slipcase. Original publisher's brown cloth with white cloth gilt lettered panel at front, lettered gilt at spine. Black and white illustrations throughout.Heavy book may require extra shipping. Surface wear at white cloth front panel, spine a litle faded, else internally clean and bright. Very good in slightly marked, very good slipcase.
Verlag: The Folio Society, London, 2013
Anbieter: Any Amount of Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
8vo. pp xviii, 579. Original publisher's brown cloth with lettered gilt on a black setting at the spine and lettered gilt on a white setting at the front cover, in a brown slipcase. Illustrated in black and white. Fine in fine slipcase.
Verlag: Twentieth Century-Fox, Los Angeles, 1964
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Collection of 26 vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Based on the 1962 novel "The Siege of Battersea," wherein a strict Sergeant Major in a sleepy East African outpost is forced to defend his inexperienced soldiers in the wake of a violent, unexpected coup d'etat. Set in East Africa. 10 x 8 inches. 24 Near Fine, 2 Very Good plus, with light creasing, and one Very Good, with edgewear and pinholes to the border.
Verlag: Rotterdam/ Maastricht Museum Boymans - van Beuningen/ Bonnefantenmuseum 1974, 1974
Anbieter: BOOKSELLER - ERIK TONEN BOOKS, Antwerpen, Belgien
Verbandsmitglied: ILAB
Geheel uitplooibare catalogus in z/w, A4-formaat, z/w/rode kartonomslag geillustreerd. Overzichtstentoonstelling Museum Boymans - van Beuningen 5 april - 19. Bonnefantenmuseum 1 juni - 13 juli 1974. Tweetalige editie Nl/Eng. 720 g.
Verlag: Michael Powell [Theatre], London, 1960
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Kunst / Grafik / Poster
British Advance Poster for the classic 1960 film. The British Double Crown poster for the film turns up from time to time, but this Advance issue, which does not state the film's title, is a rarity. Noted director Powell's most controversial film, about a serial killer who films his female victims as they are dying. Reviled by critics on its release and today considered a masterpiece, it is the second of three feature films director made after parting ways with his longtime filmmaking partner Emeric Pressburger. Ostensibly a film about a killer with serious Freudian issues, but later reassessed as much more conceptual and complex. Roger Ebert pointed out famously in his 1999 review of the film that the audience is implicated as much as the killer."Movies make us into voyeurs. We sit in the dark, watching other people's lives. It is the bargain the cinema strikes with us, although most films are too well-behaved to mention it." Martin Scorsese is probably the most famous fan of the film, and takes Ebert's argument further, saying, "I have always felt that "Peeping Tom" and "8 " say everything that can be said about filmmaking, about the process of dealing with film, the objectivity and subjectivity of it and the confusion between the two. "8 " captures the glamour and enjoyment of film-making, while "Peeping Tom" shows the aggression of it, how the camera violates. From studying them you can discover everything about people who make films, or at least people who express themselves through films." 30 x 20 inches. About Near Fine, on archival linen, with some expert restoration at the top edge and folds. Criterion Collection 58. Grant, p. 495. Spicer, p. 446.