The Judas Factor (Signed)

First edition, first printing (true first). 256pp. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “with all good wishes, Ted Allbeury”. In brown cloth covered-boards with gilt lettering to spine. (Boards strong, sharp-edged, and clean). Dusty marked top edge. Perhaps a hint of page toning, else internally neat, clean and tight. In its original dust jacket (little sunned around spine). The dust jacket is now protected in an archival quality mylar wrapper, fitted without 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.