Valhalla's Wake: The IRA, MI6, and the Assassination of a Young American
New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. 236, very minor edge soiling. More
New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. 236, very minor edge soiling. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1965. First American Edition [stated] Presumed 1st Printing. Hardcover. 220, [4] pages. Illustrations. DJ is worn, torn, soiled and chipped. Ink note on t-p. Minor edge soiling. In 1965, a year after Molody's return to the Soviet Union, a book called Spy: Memoirs of Gordon Lonsdale was published with the approval of the Soviet authorities. It has to be read with caution. For instance, he claims Peter and Helen Kroger, convicted as members of the Portland Ring, were innocent. In fact they were veteran spies as the Soviets confirmed when they were exchanged in 1969. For Molody, life back in the Soviet Union was not a happy one. According to George Blake he was particularly critical of the way trade and industry were handled. He was given a post of minor importance and took to drinking. Konon Molody died, under what was thought by some to be mysterious circumstances, during a mushroom-picking expedition in October 1970; he was 48. Retired KGB officer Leonid Kolosov, Konon's youth friend, who co-authored The Dead Season: End of the Legend, maintained that upon Konon's return from the UK, he was healthy, but shortly afterwards he began complaining that KGB doctors were giving him injections for supposed high blood pressure, whereafter Konon was having headaches he never had before the injections but the doctors said he should expect to "feel worse before he felt better". He was buried in the Donskoy Cemetery in Moscow next to another illegal resident spy, Vilyam Genrikovich Fisher (alias Rudolf Abel). More
London: Granada Publishing, 1979. Panther Books, Special Overseas Edition. Presumed 1st ptg thus. Mass-market paperback. 540 [4] p. More
New York: Fawcett Crest, 1983. Later printing, 1984. Mass-market paperback. 352 pages. Name of previous owner present. Cover has some wear and soiling. Cover has some creasing. More
New York: Random House, 1995. First Trade Edition [stated]. Hardcover. [16], 791, [1], xxxvii, [3] pages. Appendix. Glossary of Names. Notes. Bibliography. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Minor edge and DJ soiling. Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early and wide renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In over six decades of work, Mailer had eleven best-selling books in each of the seven decades after World War II—more than any other post-war American writer. In 1955, Mailer and three others founded The Village Voice, an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper from Greenwich Village. Mailer wrote 12 novels over a 59-year span. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 462, illus., notes, bibliography, index, pages slightly off white (as printed? ), some wear and small stains to DJ. Thomas Cornelius Mangold (born 20 August 1934) is a British broadcaster, journalist and author. For 26 years he was an investigative journalist with the BBC Panorama current affairs television programme. Mangold was a reporter with the Sunday Mirror and then the Daily Express. After spending nearly two years investigating the Profumo affair, he joined BBC TV News in 1964 to be a war correspondent covering conflicts in Aden, Vietnam, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Afghanistan. In 1971 he moved to BBC TV Current Affairs working for 24 Hours, then Midweek, becoming involved in some of the first investigative news documentaries of the BBC. In 1976 Mangold transferred to Panorama, concentrating on investigative journalism and making over 100 documentaries in 26 years. In 1993 he won both the Business / Consumer Investigative Reports category in the CableACE Award in and also the Royal Television Society's Journalism Award. These were followed in 1996 by the bronze award in the Best Investigative Report Category at the New York Television Festival and in 1999 he won Investigative Reporting / News Documentary category in the Chicago International Television Competition. Between 2004 and 2008 Mangold helped Mayfield, Kentucky resident Susan Galbreath investigate and solve the case of the murder of Jessica Currin, which had occurred in 2000 but remained unsolved until 2008. Mangold has been described in The Times as "the doyen of broadcasting reporters." More
London: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. x, [2], 403, [1] pages. Illustrations. A Note on sources. A Note on Spelling. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ink notation on fep and in the text. Thomas Cornelius Mangold (born 20 August 1934) is a British broadcaster, journalist and author. For 26 years he was an investigative journalist with the BBC Panorama current affairs television programme. Mangold was a reporter with the Sunday Mirror and then the Daily Express. After spending nearly two years investigating the Profumo affair, he joined BBC TV News in 1964 to be a war correspondent covering conflicts in Aden, Vietnam, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Afghanistan. In 1971 he moved to BBC TV Current Affairs working for 24 Hours, then Midweek, becoming involved in some of the first investigative news documentaries of the BBC. In 1976 Mangold transferred to Panorama, concentrating on investigative journalism and making over 100 documentaries in 26 years. In 1993 he won both the Business / Consumer Investigative Reports category in the CableACE Award in and the Royal Television Society's Journalism Award. These were followed in 1996 by the bronze award in the Best Investigative Report Category at the New York Television Festival and in 1999 he won Investigative Reporting/News Documentary category in the Chicago International Television Competition. During 2004-2008 Mangold helped, Kentucky resident Susan Galbreath solve the case of the murder of Jessica Currin, which happened in 2000 but was not solved until 2008. Mangold has been described in The Times as "the doyen of broadcasting reporters." More
New York: Ralston-Pilot, Incorporated, Publishers, 1977. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 286 p. Illustrations. More
New York: Holt, c1989. First U.S. Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 227 pages. Index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, TLS from literary agent to Gerry Rafshoon laid in. More
Washington, DC: Ariadne Press, 1981. 205, rear DJ torn. Inscribed by the author. Invitation to celebration of the publication laid in. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. 320, some staining at top edge near rear. More
London, Frank Cass, 2002. First published in 2002 [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xiv, 226 p. A Note on the Text. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Basic Books, c1993. First U.S.? Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 213, index. Introduction by David Marples. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. Presumed U. S. first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xi, 198 p. Footnotes. Illustrations. Map. Index. More
New York: PublicAffairs, May 2019. First Edition [Stated]. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 238, [10] pages. Author's Note. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Signed by co-author Jonna Mendez on the title page. Jonna Mendez (née Hiestand; born 1945) is an American former technical operations officer, photo operations officer, and chief of disguise for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In the CIA, Mendez lived under cover and served tours of duty in Europe, the Far East, the Subcontinent, and at CIA Headquarters. In the 1970's, she joined the Office of Technical Service and worked overseas with a specialty in clandestine photography. She was assigned to Denied Area Operations for disguise in 1986. This took her to the most difficult and hostile operating areas in the world where she and her colleagues matched wits with the overwhelming forces of the KGB in Moscow, the Stasi in East Germany and the Cuban DGI. During her tenure as Chief of Disguise, she met with President George H. W. Bush in a mask disguise, which she removed in the meeting to demonstrate the effectiveness of the art of disguise. After retiring from the CIA in 1993, Mendez and her husband served on the board of directors for the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. They were both involved in the museum planning and design. Antonio Joseph Mendez (November 15, 1940 – January 19, 2019) was an American technical operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who specialized in support of clandestine and covert CIA operations. He wrote four memoirs about his CIA experiences. He was not alive when this work was published, so the only author signature possible was that of Jonna Mendez. More
New York: Villard Books, 1985. First Edition [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 389, [1] pages. Includes Prologue: Gogol Boulevard; Discoveries; The Aquarium; Nikolsky's Problem; Elaine; Living with Wolves; House of Lies; Bangladesh; Topchy's Solution; The Coup; and Nalivay! Robert Moss, born in Melbourne (Victoria) in 1946, is an Australian historian, journalist and author. Moss joined the editorial staff of The Economist. From 1970–1980, he was an editorial writer and special correspondent for The Economist. He edited The Economist's weekly Foreign Report from 1974–1980, and wrote for many other publications, including The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic and Commentary. He was a regular commentator on international affairs on British television and the BBC World Service. In a paper presented to the International Institute of Strategic Studies in 1971, Moss was one of the first to identify the emergence of international terrorism. He expanded his paper into his first book, Urban Guerrillas. From 1971–1980, he was a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. Moss drafted a speech for Margaret Thatcher in January 1976 warning about the Soviet military build-up. In response to this speech Thatcher was labelled the "Iron Lady" by the Soviet Army newspaper Red Star. He was awarded the Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation at the University of St. Gallen in 1979. Moss co-authored the novel The Spike with Arnaud de Borchgrave; it became a best seller in 1980. Moss became a full-time writer and published a series of best-selling suspense novels including Moscow Rules. More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 188, illus., footnotes, minor damp stain and soiling at bottom of DJ, some highlighting and underlining/marginalia, review slip. More
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, c1979. First Printing. 24 cm, 227, index, DJ worn, soiled, scuffed, faded, and chipped. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, c1997. First Printing. 25 cm, 530, illus., maps, appendices, notes, index. More
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, c1976. First American Edition. 24 cm, 131, pages discolored, DJ worn and soiled, small piece of DJ missing. More
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, c1976. First American Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 131, some discoloration to text. An expose by an officer of the Third Directorate Soviet Union Intelligence. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 1st Ballantine Edition. First Thus? Printing. 184, wraps, covers worn, soiled, and creased. More
New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1993. First Printing. 338, illus., footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. More
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. 627, documents, notes, index, slight scuffing to rear DJ. More
New York: Warner Books, 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. [6], 314 pages. Illustrations. Index. Some sticker residue on DJ. Ida Nudel (born April 27, 1931) is a former refusenik and an Israeli activist. She was known as the "Guardian Angel" for her efforts to help the "Prisoners of Zion" in the Soviet Union. In the summer of 1972 she organized a hunger strike at the central office of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to protest the arrest of refusenik Vladimir Markman. She started a campaign for keeping contact with prisoners of Zion. She spread word about items the prisoners needed and were permitted to possess, and requested them from visitors from all over the world. In June 1978 she placed a banner in her apartment in Moscow reading "KGB, give me my visa to Israel". She was sentenced to four years of internal exile. For several months, she was the only woman in a factory dormitory, before finding herself a log hut and a job as a night guard at a truck yard. The KGB warned the residents of the village to stay away from her. She was released on March 20, 1982, having been warned not to associate with any refuseniks or foreigners. After almost a year in constant movement as she wasn't allowed back to her flat in Moscow nor gain permit to live in any other place, she was permitted to live for five years in Bender, Moldova. From 1973 her sister Elena Fridman fought to bring her to Israel. On October 2, 1987, she was informed she had been granted an exit visa. On October 15, 1987 Nudel arrived in Israel. More