spy twenty years secret service de lonsdale gordon (17 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. No inscriptions and not price clipped. At time of input, this fascinating book, (piece of history) is 59 years old and considering this, is in very good condition indeed. The Dust Jacket is intact , bright and clean. There is a tiny triangular piece missing bottom left, near spine, but only about 1cm. There is some very, very minor edge wear to the DJ but no large nicks or tears. ie. the DJ opens out intact. The inside folded flaps of DJ are near fine. Brown stripe down first page (all copies may have this due to acid in the paper). Thick cream paper throughout. The frontispiece is a wonderfully clear and unmarked full page, black and white picture of Lonsdale. The title page is fine. The 218 pages of the book are totally bright and clean and the spine is very tight. Two very interesting black and white photo sections of his life, and friends around the world. Being sold by a longstanding UK bookseller and NOT a mass lister which infers that there are no nasty surprises and the book is just as described. NOT ex-library. KINDLY NOTE that an overseas order will incur a small amount of extra postage. The Publisher's Afterword by Neville Armstrong (Editor in chief) explains how he got Lonsdale to write this book. A very good copy indeed.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First American Edition. Dime-sized hole in the margin of one leaf but text legible, otherwise Very Good, in Very Good Dust Jacket with slight edge wear and smudging.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Octavo hardback. 218 pp, Illustrated Very Good condition in Good + unclipped dust jacket (spine and edges of jacket a bit embrowned with some tiny closed nicks along the top edge) No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. 218 pages. Illustrated. An ex-library book with the usual stamps. Book is intact and complete. Jacket missing inside flap.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. 1st Edition. Edge wear to jacket.

Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : None. Hardcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations. Autobiography of the Russian Secret Agent, sentenced in England 1961 for espionage, released to Soviet authorities in 1964. Previous owner's bookplate, initials on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Record # 412091.

Boards. 1st edition. 8vo, pp. 218, b/w frontis portrait, b/w plates, previous owner's inscription, endpapers tanned, original boards, small dent top edge otherwise good, in d.j. edges rubbed small splits cnrs and head spine. Autobiography of the Russian Secret Agent, sentenced in England 1961 for espionage, released to Soviet authorities in 1964.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First American Edition. The book has the previous owner's name stamped on the first page.

Etat : Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Soviet Spies, Secret Service, Autobiography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : DUST JACKET. First American Edition. First American Edition. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good. ex-library book with normal library stamps & stickers.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 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). Konon Trofimovich Molody (17 January 1922 - 9 September 1970) was a Soviet intelligence officer, better known in the West as Gordon Arnold Lonsdale. He was an illegal resident spy during the Cold War and the mastermind of the Portland Spy Ring. Konon Molody was born in Moscow in 1922, the son of a scientist. According to Konon's son Trofim Molody who authored the book about his father ("The Dead Season. End of the Legend", 1998), the Soviet intelligence had their eyes on the young boy, when the NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda helped Konon's mother get a passport for him to go to the US in 1934 to live with an aunt in California (according to his official SVR biography, he left the USSR in 1932). Molody returned to the Soviet Union in 1938. In October 1940 he was conscripted and served in the Red Army during World War II. After the war, in 1946, he became a student at the Law Department of the Institute of Foreign Trade, where he studied Chinese. In 1951 he was recruited to the Soviet foreign intelligence service of the KGB and trained as an "illegal" spy. In 1953, Molody set off for Canada on a Soviet merchant ship, using the passport of a dead man whose late mother was a Finn married to Canadian citizen Arnold Lonsdale (this had been made possible thanks to the use of Finland's public records captured by the Soviets after the war). From Canada "Gordon Lonsdale" went on to the US, where he helped the atomic spy Rudolph Abel with his communications; there, he also met Peter and Helen Kroger, two Americans, who worked for the KGB because of their communist beliefs. In 1954, Konon Molody went to London, where he took courses at the London University School of Oriental and African Studies. He was an outgoing character and had numerous female friends in London and Europe. Molody went into business, selling and renting jukeboxes, bubble-gum and gambling machines to pubs, clubs and cafes. This took him to continental Europe, where he may have recruited other agents and set up dead letter boxes. His family and friends in the USSR were led to believe that Konon was posted in China; once a year he would go to Prague or Warsaw to spend some time with his wife Galina. It was in 1959 that Molody began receiving British military secrets from Harry Houghton, who was working at the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment on the Isle of Portland. His continental trips also led him to meet Morris Cohen (then using the pseudonym Peter Kroger), whom he often visited in London. He ran other spies, including Melita Norwood. In Lo.

1st edition dust jacket Very Good octavo 218pp., frontis., b/w pls., Memoirs of the greatest of all the Soviet 'illegals'. From Eastern Front Partisan to the GRU.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear, small chips.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Book and dust jacket very good. Gift inscription of Neville Armstrong, director of the publishing company. Offsetting of newspaper clipping on the front flypaper. Laid loose is a letter also by Neville Armstrong.

Hardback. Memoirs. 218pp, 25 plates, Neville Spearman, London 1965 *Ghost written by Kim Philby. A little underlining & notes on the dust jacket by a person who had indirect connection with Lonsdale. A very good copy in slightly marked dust jacket.

Etat : new.