AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
7.4.22
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BURGESS GUY: (1911-1963) British diplomat and Soviet Agent, a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. Book signed, being a hardback edition of The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester, First Edition published by Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1941, bearing the ownership signature ('G Burgess') of Burgess in bold pencil to the front free endpaper. Also bearing the bookplate of Kim Philby (1912-1988) British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. The slim oblong 12mo bookplate features Philby's name ('H. A. R. PHILBY') within a decorative border and is neatly affixed to the front pastedown. Bound in the publisher's sand coloured cloth and with blue title to spine. Lacking the dust jacket. An interesting association copy bearing the rare signature of Burgess. Some staining to the boards and light overall age wear, G

 

It was Harold Adrian Russell 'Kim' Philby who, in 1935, recommended to Soviet Intelligence that they recruit Guy Burgess as an agent. Philby was also responsible for tipping off Burgess (and the spy Donald Maclean) that they was under suspicion of espionage, prompting them to defect and flee to Moscow in May 1951.