The Alpha List (Signed)

First edition, first impression (true first). Prelims plus 208pp. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author: “With love to Lisle, Ted Allbeury, 9 Jan ’80”. In red cloth covered-boards with silver lettering to spine. (Boards strong square and clean, just a little bruised at spine ends, and very mild spotting on text block edges). Internally neat, clean bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (lightly sunned on spine). The dust jacket is now protected in an archival-quality mylar wrapper, 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 during on his war time experience, some of which were published under the pen names Patrick Kelly and Richard Butler.