Spy Story

by Len Deighton, born 1929

£65 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. Cold War spy thriller FIRST EDITION. Octavo 22 x 14cm , pp.224. Publisher's hardback cloth, red endpapers and top edge tinted red, in a pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Ray Hawkey priced £2.25. A clean, fine copy, with strong red lettering to the spine. The fifth in the so-called 'Harry Palmer' series, although the protagonist is actually unnamed. In the 60's, Len Deighton was the chief rival of fellow Cape-published spy

• Binding: Hardcover

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