Declarations of War.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. [Short Stories] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.205; [3], blank. Bound in printed yellow covers. Provisional price £1.50 and publication month 'October' to half title. With the proof-only red jacket, with an entirely different design to the published jacket, and loose card stiffeners (vintage, possibly as issued). Contents clean, no inscriptions, some offset tanning from boards, clovers clean and fresh, jacket is bright wit gentle sunning to spine, minor wear at spine ends. Thirteen stories about men forced into impossible situations by war. Especially scarce in the proof jacket. Item #75386
Milward-Oliver; Len Deighton Annotated Bibliography p.36.
Price: £295.00
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