The Spy's Bedside Book

First published in 1957, this anthology compiled by Graham Greene and his brother Hugh collects extracts about spies and secret work from fiction, memoirs, verse, and odd documents. Pieces range from adventure and detection to wartime deception and the comic failure of disguise, with short editorial notes rather than a continuous argument. The Greenes arrange the book as bedside browsing, not as a training manual or a single novel. It is a miscellany of espionage writing, not a history of any one service.

Bound in image blocked green buckram. Frontispiece and 42 black & white integrated illustrations. Plain slipcase.