"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
The Billion Dollar Brain.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. [Spy Thriller] FIRST US EDITION, the true first edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 312 [6]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket (blue text variant). Contents clean, no inscriptions, light toning to edges. A little dulling to gilt. Jacket price-clipped, some minor nicks/tears to extremities. Deighton's fourth novel, featuring the unnamed working-class protagonist, portrayed as agent 'Harry Palmer' on-screen by Michael Caine in the film of the same name (1967). Item #75385
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