" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.205 [3]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Christopher Foss, priced at £1.50. A fine copy of the book in a fine jacket but for the usual sunning to spine. Thirteen stories about men forced into impossible situations by war. From the library of Deighton's biographer Edward Milward-Oliver, purchased directly by ourselves, with a printed note to that effect loosely inserted. Item #65178
Milward-Oliver; Len Deighton Annotated Bibliography p.36.
Price: £48.00
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