286 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minor shelfwear, including a small bump to one corner. Unclipped dustjacket is moderately browned on the spine and top edge, with numerous small tears and creases, slight soiling and is moderately to heavily rubbed at the extremities; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated by 14 black & white photographs. The author is a brother to the novelist Graham Greene. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. N° de ref. del artículo 009677
Título: SECRET AGENT IN SPAIN.
Editorial: Robert Hale Limited, London
Año de publicación: 1938
Encuadernación: Hardcover
Condición: Very good+ condition
Condición de la sobrecubierta: Good+ condition (DJ)
Edición: First Edition
Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Original Blue Boards a little faded and stained, Titles to spine, were gilt but now sunned to black. Internally the book is clean and bright with no inscriptions or markings. Grahame Greene?s feckless elder brother Herbert. An impressively ineffectual spook who became an agent for the Japanese (they paid him £2,000 a month, despite being ?rather disappointed with the results?), Herbert then offered his dubious services to the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, whereupon he was swiftly captured. In one improbable story, Hemingway was all set to execute him as a spy, but Claud Cockburn allegedly interceded: ?Don?t shoot him, he?s my headmaster?s son.? An interesting read and also one of the rarest books to find on the Spanish Civil War. Nº de ref. del artículo: 002620