Espionage

An Account of the New Zealand Himalayan Expedition 1953 [Himalayan Holiday]

A four-man group spent 18 months in the region. Athol Roberts [leader], Maurice Bishop, Philip Gardner and Graham McCallum.

Soft cover, yap wrapped covers, 72 pages, perfect bound, many illustrations in colour from expedition photographs, map of the Central Nepalese Himalaya with routes marked. Very good if not fine condition.

Of course, this was the year that Everest was conquered and the fact that this expedition was also on the go allows one to understand how active Himalayan discovery was at the time and the extent of the New Zealand participation.

This includes areas of Central Nepal never seen properly before by outsiders. They made the first ascent of Mt Chamar, completed an invaluable botanical study with over a thousand species sent to the British Museum for identification and /or classification.

Roberts and his team in Nepal – it’s not all about Everest.

$25.00

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Secret Classrooms – An Untold Story of the Cold War – Elliot and Shukman

A fascinating story and one that surprised Voyager who had never heard of the Secret Classrooms – I guess they were “Secret”.

Published by St Ermin’s Press, London in 2002. A first edition hardback, octavo 246, illustrated from relevant period photographs. Slight even toning otherwise an excellent copy in likewise dust jacket.

The British secretly formed the Joint services School of Linguistics [JSSL] which pushed circa 5,000 clever young individuals through intensive training as translators and interpreters to meet the ballooning needs of the Intelligence Services.

The system operated for nine years with “training” camps in Surrey, Cornwall and Scotland. Cambridge University and London University were involved. Students were not only immersed in the language but the Russian way of life, arts, theatre etc.

The diversity of those selected includes a who’s who of to be professors, ambassadors, actors and playwrights – the latter including Dennis Potter and Alan Bennett

Another secret curiosity of the Cold War and fear of Russia.

$35.00

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Spy Catcher – Peter Wright – Former Assistant Director MI5

The greatest real expose of the activities of MI5 from technically adept Peter wright.

There was Philby and the “thing” the secret of all secret devices hidden within the American Great Seal. The bugging of the Egyptian cypher room. His greatest claim however was that Sir Roger Hollis was the “Fifth Man”.

Wright retired to Cygnet, Tasmania where he and his wife had a few acres and raised Arabian horses.

The struggle to get published and the various political heaviness are well understood.

Published by Heinemann in Australia in 1987, a first edition. Octavo, 392 pages, illustrated from photographs. Original owner name on end paper, closed tear top dust jacket otherwise a nice copy of this important book.

Spy Catcher – They couldn’t stop him …..

$35.00

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Kim Philby and other Russian Spy Celebrities – Russian Stamp Set 1990

A complete set of five mint stamps issued in Russia in 1990.

Each with a portrait of a member of the espionage elite. Rodolf Abel (1903-1971); Konon Molody (1922-1970); Vaupshascov (1899-1976); Kudrya (1912-1942) and …

“was he, or wasn’t he?” Harold “Kim” Philby.

Nicknamed “Kim” after the Rudyard Kipling boy hero spy – should have been a clue!

If you don’t know who Kim Philby is we are guessing you won’t want to buy this set …

Postage likely to be reduced on final billing.

Unusual item for those undercover agents out there …

$25.00

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Operation Cicero – the Espionage Sensation of the War – L.C. Moyzisch – 1950

First edition published 1950 by Wingate, London. Octavo, 208 pages, a nice copy.

Written from a German perspective by Moyzisch who the Attache at the German Embassy in Ankara was. An “authenticity” post-script by Franz von Papen who was the Ambassador.

An Albanian, Elyesa Bazna, code named Cicero had rolls of film for sale about key British intelligence … the German’s paid up and the details of the Moscow, Cairo and Tehran conferences of the Allies were available to Hitler. However, what became of the information … and extraordinary spy account … once disbelieved but now authenticated.

Rare spy story published shortly after WWII

$40.00

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Envoy Extraordinary – E Phillips Oppenheim – 1940

Espionage at the brink of WWII this edition published by Triangle and offshoot of Little Brown, New York in 1940.

Octavo, 307 pages, printed on “war paper’ hence the normal even toasting of the paper. Otherwise a very nice copy in a very good dust jacket indeed.

the Earl of Matresser returns to his Norfolk estate after years of hunting and spying in Africa and Asia. Europe is rumbling and the powers that be seek to restore the balance by promoting Monarchy in Germany and elsewhere. What was Rosa Von Kampf doing in England – is she the guiding figure behind the attempt on Pilot Number Seventeen’s life?

Classic Oppenheim – usual dust jacket art.

$60.00

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An Account of the New Zealand Himalayan Expedition 1953 [Himalayan Holiday]

Secret Classrooms – An Untold Story of the Cold War – Elliot and Shukman

Spy Catcher – Peter Wright – Former Assistant Director MI5

Kim Philby and other Russian Spy Celebrities – Russian Stamp Set 1990

Operation Cicero – the Espionage Sensation of the War – L.C. Moyzisch – 1950

Envoy Extraordinary – E Phillips Oppenheim – 1940

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