CLOAK AND DAGGER: The Secret Story of O.S.S. With a Tribute by Maj. Gen. William J. Donovan

New York: Random House, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The basis for the 1946 American spy film directed by Fritz Lang which stars Gary Cooper as an American scientist sent by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to contact European scientists working on the German nuclear weapons program and Lilli Palmer as a member of the Italian resistance movement who shelters and guides him. Octavo: vii, [1], 216 pp. Original black cloth binding, with gilt- and red-stamped titles and decorations. Bookplate to the front pastedown. The dust jacket is a little edgeworn, with three tape mends to the verso; otherwise very good. (Inventory #: 78594)