The Great Spy Race

by Adam Diment, born 1943

$250 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Michael Joseph, 1968. Spy novel UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the first edition. Octavo 20 x 13cm , pp.208. Publisher's printed buff wraps. Pencil ownership of bibliographer Jon Gilbert, contents clean, covers lightly handled, spine wrinkled as expected. Near fine. A risqué James Bond-style spoof, being the second adventure featuring Adam Diment's highly-sexed, pot-smoking British agent Philip McAlpine an obvious predecessor of Austin Powers . A

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