Thomas miller beach (3 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. A facsimile of the 10th edition of Thomas Miller Beach's memoirs, originally published in 1893. Thomas Miller Beach (who used the alias Major Henri Le Caron) (September 26, 1841- April 1, 1894) was an English spy. His services enabled the British Government to take measures which led to the fiasco of the Canadian invasion of 1870 and Kiel's surrender in 1871, and he supplied full details concerning the various Irish-American associations, in which he himself was a prominent member. In a cloth covered binding with original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally, lovely condition. Minor shelfwear to the boards. Light edgewear to the dustwrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very good. With portraits and facsimiles. Frontis. portrait of the author. Octavo, 3/4 green leather over green boards. Gilt rules. Gilt titles on spine also with gilt designs of shamrocks and harps. Raised bands on spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. vi [2] 311 pages. Spine leather has sunned to brown. With the bookplates of two former owners on front endpapers. The earliest is from The (Second) Earl of Dudley, William Humble Ward, who was the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1902-1905. Black and white photo illustrations. Light wear at cover edges. 020207A British Spies, People of the Fenian Raids, American Civil War, Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Espionage.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First American edition. 12mo. 205pp. Bound into leatherbacked textured maroon cloth with spine gilt and edges sprinkled. Spine with some wear and two splits at the upper shoulder, still very good and sound. The English spy Thomas Miller Beach's exploits in espionage. The American edition seems to be much more uncommon than the English edition, which seems to have seen wide circulation in the author's home country. with *OCLC* locates 10 copies of this imprint. …