Bomber.

DEIGHTON, Len (born 1929).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. [Wartime Adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.494 [2]. Publisher's navy blue cloth with silver titles to spine, black endpapers, and top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey, based on a painting by J.M.W. Turner. Internally clean, no inscriptions, edges dusty/toned, jacket with minor nicks, sunned to spine, price crossed inked out. Possibly a proof or advance wrapper with publication date 'SEP 70' rubber-stamped to the rear flap. A popular Second World War novel concerning the R.A.F. Bomber Command, chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the best ninety-nine novels in English published since 1939. Illustrator Raymond Hawkey (1930-2010) designed the classic 1960's James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books. Item #75152

Milward-Oliver; Len Deighton Annotated Bibliography p.35.

Price: £48.00