An Expensive Place to Die.

DEIGHTON, Len (born 1929).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [Espionage] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.254 [2]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at 21s to front flap. Decorative black and white endpapers. Internally pristine. Spotting/dustiness to top edge. Jacket spine mildly sunned. Near fine. An Expensive Place to Die is a Cold-War espionage novel set in Paris. 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 #73862

Price: £45.00