Secret Agent "ST 25" - Adventure and Romance in the Secret Intelligence Service in Red Russia 1917-1920

London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1949. First Thus. First impression of the Cassell's Pocket Library edition (extensively revised). 12mo. Patterned boards; dustjacket; 288pp. Tight, clean copy, Very Good or better, in the original dustwrapper, lightly worn and soiled with small loss at crown of spine panel and a single clear tape reinforcement to same; Good or better. Includes a new Preface by the author.

Reissue, with extensive revisions, of Dukes' 1938 memoir "The Story of ST-25." Dukes, known as "The Man With A Hundred Faces," was one of the most celebrated of the first generation of MI6 operatives, succeeding in infiltrating, among (truncated) several other Soviet agencies, the notoriously hermetic CHEKA. He was knighted for his exploits in 1920. Both this and the original 1938 edition of Dukes' memoir are uncommon in trade. (Inventory #: 85621)