James Bond First Editions

Spy Story.

DEIGHTON, Len (born 1929).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. [Cold War spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's hardback cloth, red endpapers and top edge tinted red, in a pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Ray Hawkey priced £2.25. Near fine in a very good jacket with a few small nicks to spine ends. The fifth in the so-called 'Harry Palmer' series, although the protagonist is actually unnamed. In the 60's, Len Deighton was the chief rival of fellow Cape-published spy writer Ian Fleming, who had championed his first novel 'The Ipcress File'. Illustrator Raymond Hawkey (1930-2010) designed the classic 1960's 007 paperbacks for Pan Books. Item #71806

Milward-Oliver; Len Deighton Annotated Bibliography p.38.

Price: £45.00