Shadow of Shadows (Signed)

1st US edition, first printing. Prelims + 186pp. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “With love to Sue and Chris, Ted Allbeury, 31 Oct ’82.” In black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine (boards are square, clean and sharp-edged, just a little bruised at spine base, dusty top text block edge). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (small chip on upper leading corner, tiny nick at head of spine). The dust jacket is now protected in an archival quality mylar wrapper. The wrapper is fitted without the use of adhesives or tape. Ted Allbeury was a British author, writing mainly espionage fiction. He served as an intelligence office in the Special Operations Executive during the second world war, and is said to have been the only British Secret Agent who parachuted into Nazi Germany during the war and remained there until the Allied armies arrived. He wrote over forty novels, often drawing on his war time experience, some of which were published under the pen names Patrick Kelly and Richard Butler.