Lot 30: ESPIONAGE - Robert BADEN-POWELL (1857-1941). The

ESPIONAGE - Robert BADEN-POWELL (1857-1941). The Adventures of a Spy ... Illustrated by the Author. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1924. 8vo. Half title, illustrations, 4-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (occasional light spotting). Original red pictorial cloth. Provenance: illegible signature dated 1931 on front free endpaper. New Edition. With 44 other books, most on espionage, including a defective first edition of the above work, Henri le Caron's Twenty-Five Years in The Secret Service (London, 1892), William Le Quex's The Invasion of 1910 with a Full Account of the Siege of London (London, 1906), John Price Jones's The German Spy in America ... with a Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt (London, 1917), Steinhauer's The Kaiser's Master Spy (London, 1930), Compton Mackenzie's Water on the Brain (London, 1933) and Marthe McKenna's I was a Spy! ... Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill (London, [n.d.]), most in original cloth, a few with dust-jackets. (45)