Horse Under Water. Secret File No. 2. A Novel

by Len Deighton by Len Deighton, born 1929

£500 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. Espionage fiction FIRST EDITION, first impressions. Two copies regular and variant . Octavo 19 x 14cm , pp.255; 1 blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Black office stamp motif and blind-stamped DOWNGRADED TO UNCLASSIFIED on front board, with plain black endpapers. Dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey. With a second copy, in publisher's black cloth without blocking to the front cover, lettered in silver

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