Len Deighton - An Expensive Place to Die - First Edition

DEIGHTON, Len (born 1929).

An Expensive Place to Die.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.254; [2]. Publisher’s black cloth, gilt titles to spine, decorative endpapers. Dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey, with printed price of 21s. net. Lacking the Secret Documents docket.

Neat gift inscription to reverse of flyleaf, some toning to edges. Dust-jacket worn to extremities, sunned to spine, paint drip to foot of rear panel. Very good.

Edward Milward-Oliver; Len Deighton an Annotated Bibliography p.32.