Description
First edition, second printing published by Hodder & Stoughton in London in 1962. A fine book in the original orange boards with gilt lettering to the spine. No ownership inscriptions. SIGNED by the author to the title page with the words, ‘All my best wishes / Len Deighton’, without a named recipient. In the fine unclipped dust wrapper, retaining the original price of 15/- net, with reviews to the front flap. A particularly bright and well-preserved example of Raymond Hawkey’s iconic photographic design.
The author’s landmark debut novel, published here in its second printing in the same year as the first. An exceptionally attractive signed copy of a defining work of British espionage fiction.
