Yesterday's Spy.

DEIGHTON, Len (born 1929).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Spy thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.224. Bound in salmon-coloured printed wraps, with oversize proof-only dust-wrapper, which curiously lists the provisional publication date as June 12th 1973. The actual release date was January 1975 (this date being printed on the binding). The jacket artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960s James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books. Cheap paper toned, else a fine book, oversized jacket worn to unsupported areas, some small chips to spine ends. Very good indeed. With comparisons to Graham Greene and Ian Fleming, Deighton first arrived on the shady scene in 1962 and was described by Julian Symons as 'the poet of the spy story'. Item #61354

Milward-Oliver; Len Deighton Annotated Bibliography p.39.

Price: £95.00