Gentleman Spy. The Life of Allen Dulles

by Peter Grose

£48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Biography/espionage FIRST EDITION. Octavo 24 x 16cm , pp.641; 3 , blank. Bound in publisher's quarter black cloth hardcovers in photographic dust-jacket priced at 30. A clean, fine copy. Biogrpaphy of spymaster Allen Dulles, the first civilian director of the C.I.A., in office at the height of the Cold War, from 1953-1961. He was a colleague of Ian Fleming, both men working for the O.S.S. the precursor to the C.I.A.

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