The Silver Death

New York/London: D. Appleton-Century Company. Near Fine. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a well-made "Colorcopy" reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing, and see Notes for further explanation) [nice clean book with only minor shelfwear; previous owner's handwritten notes regarding purchase plus brief critical commentary in ink along edge of rear pastedown (hidden by rear jacket flap)]. Espionage thriller, in which a British Secret Service agent teams with an American Secret Service agent (the latter a woman) team up to steal "a super-plane developed by the Germans and capable of such amazing speed, altitude, cruising radius and destructiveness that it would give Germany complete mastery of the air," and fly it to England. Published in late October 1939, just weeks after the outbreak of World War II. .