Spy: Twenty Years of Secret Service – Memoirs of Gordon Lonsdale

First edition, first printing. 218pp, monochrome plate frontispiece with occasional further black and white plate illustrations. In black cloth-covered boards with silver titles on spine. 8vo. Gently rounded at spine tips. Some mild strip tanning on endpapers, previous owner’s name on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean and tight. Lonsdale, convicted as a Russian spy in 1961 but released and handed back to the Soviet Union in an exchange in East Berlin in 1964, here presents the first ever autobiography of a Soviet Spy.