Yesterday's Spy

by Len Deighton, born 1929

£195 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition · Signed

London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. Spy thriller UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE DESIGNER. Octavo 23 x 15cm , pp.224. Bound in salmon-coloured printed wraps, with oversize proof-only dust-wrapper, which curiously lists the provisional publication date as June 12th 1973. The actual release date was January 1975 this date being printed on the binding . The jacket artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960s James Bond

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