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Bomber.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. [Wartime Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.494; [2], blank. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers lettered to the spine in silver, plain black endpapers, top edge red. Textured dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey, based on a painting by J.M.W. Turner. A very good copy in price-clipped..... More
City of Gold.
London: Century, 1992. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[viii]; 323; [5], blank. Publisher's sand-coloured hardcover cloth blocked in black to the backstrip, cartographic endpapers, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £14.99. Lightly handled; near fine. A novel of conflict, espionage and love, set in Wartime Cairo, 1942. In the 60's..... More
Declarations of War.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.205 [3]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Christopher Foss, priced at £1.50. A fine copy of the book in a fine jacket but for the usual..... More
An Expensive Place to Die.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.254. Publisher's black cloth in original pictorial dust-jacket, priced at 21 shillings, with the original loose 'In Transit Docket', designed by Raymond Hawkey. A crisp, fine copy of the book in a near fine, slightly sunned jacket (as..... More
An Expensive Place to Die.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.254. Publisher's black cloth in original pictorial dust-jacket, priced at 21 shillings, with the original loose 'In Transit Docket', designed by Raymond Hawkey. Minor creases to half title else a crisp, fine copy of the book in a...... More
Funeral in Berlin. Secret File Number 3.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Cold-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[1] 319 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with blue rubber-stamp motif and blind 'downgraded to unclassified' box blocked to upper board, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey priced at 18s..... More
Funeral in Berlin. Secret File Number 3.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Cold-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[1] 319 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with blue rubber-stamp motif and blind 'downgraded to unclassified' box blocked to upper board, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey. Contents clean, jacket..... More
Goodbye Mickey Mouse.
London: Hutchinson, 1982. [Wartime air adventure] FIRST EDITION, association copy. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.395; [5], blank. Publisher's red cloth hardcover in illustrated dust-wrapper priced at £8.50. Some gentle bumping to dust-jacket extremitis, otherwise a fine copy. A popular read and certainly not a scarce book, but increasingly uncommon in..... More
Horse Under Water.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and decoration stamped in black and blind to upper. Crossword puzzles to endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey priced at 16s. Some spotting to both book and jacket, minor..... More
Horse Under Water. Secret File No.2.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Cold War spy thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1]. Publisher's lime green softcovers with 'greek urn' device repeated in white, titles printed in black, with PROOF-ONLY dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey. The jacket is considerably different to the published version; the photograph..... More
Horse Under Water. Secret File No.2. A Novel by Len Deighton.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Cold War spy thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1]. Publisher's lime green softcovers with 'greek urn' device repeated in white, titles printed in black, proof-only dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey. INSCRIBED by Hawkey in black ink to reverse of jacket: 'To |..... More
The Ipcress File [IPCRESS-streng geheim].
Bern & Munich: Phoenix, 1965. [Spy thriller] FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth in photographic dust-jacket featuring Len Deighton in conversation with Ian Fleming on the rear panel. A clean, fine book in near fine jacket with a little wear to extremities. Basis for the..... More
The Ipcress File.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1962. [Cold-War thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's orange cloth in original dust-wrapper (without reviews) designed by Raymond Hawkey. Owner name to f.e.p, minor wear and handling, a little rubbed to crown. Very good indeed. Author's debut spy novel, a landmark in the..... More
The Ipcress File.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. [Landmark spy novel]. FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287; [1], blank. Publisher's cloth in original dust-wrapper with the same Hawkey jacket design as the UK edition, priced at $3.95. Bookplate of art collector, philathropist and Carnegie Medal recipient Shelby White. Later pencil..... More
Len Deighton's French Cooking For Men.
London: Harper Collins, 2010. [Cookery] FIRST EDITION, with strike line '1'. Oblong octavo (18 x 25cm), pp.256. Illustrated, with fifty cook-strips. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers, blue endpapers, priced £9.99. Without jacket, as issued. As new. A thoroughly revised hardcover version of Deighton's 1965 'Action Cook Book', which had been chosen as..... More
Len Deighton's London Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [Counter-culture] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.328. Publisher's pictorial lime-green softcovers. Contents clean, brown spot to top edge, some toning to extremities of covers, spine wrinkled. A very good copy. In our experience, this is one of the most elusive Deighton proofs. Amusing guide..... More
Mamista (hardback and proof).
New York: Harper Collins, 1991. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, together with ADVANCE READING COPY. Octavos (24 x 17cm), pp.410, pp.339. Publisher's green linen-backed hardcover in illustrated dust-wrapper, or publisher's illustrated softcovers. Some spotting/toning to edges else fine. Guerilla warfare story set in 1980s South America. In the 60's, Len Deighton was..... More
Only When I Larf [2 copies].
London: Penguin, 1968 [1967]. [Comic novel] FIRST TRADE EDITION, a paperback original. Two variant copies. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.251; [5], advertisements. Publisher's softcovers with either Brian Duffy's 'smiling lips' photograph or an uncredited 'seductive blonde' photograph. No ink names. Textblocks toned as expected, some spotting, covers show some use/handling..... More
Où Est Le Garlic. French Cooking In 50 Lessons. Including chapters on L'Art Culinaire, Les Viandes, Les Fromages, Les Corps Gras, La Carte des Vins, La Cuisine Francaise et Le Froid, Le Lexique, La Batterie de Cuisine, and 50 Cookstrips 50.
New York: Harper & Row, 1977. [French Cookery] FIRST U.S. EDITION, being the FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Oblong octavo (14 x 21cm), pp.224. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's illustrated hardcovers, without jacket as issued. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Price obscured to rear else a fine copy. True first hardback, following the..... More
Spy Hook.
London: Hutchinson, 1988. [Cold War spy novel] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION, limited and numbered (404/500 copies). Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[iv]; 267; [1], blank. Publisher's illustrated softcovers. Light spotting to edges, minor wrinkles to spine. Near fine. The first in a trilogy of spy novels featuring Bernard..... More
Spy Story.
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..... More
SS-GB. Nazi Occupied Britain 1941.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.350; [2], blank. Hardback in dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960s James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books. With accompanying booklet of promotional 1941 postage stamps, issued for the book trade; objections from the Royal..... More
SS-GB. Nazi Occupied Britain 1941.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.350; [2], blank. Hardback in dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960s James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books. Near fine, in similar wrapper with the usual sunning to the spine. With comparisons to Graham Greene..... More
Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.240. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge blue, photographic endpapers depicting the sky at night. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at £3.25. Contents clean, no inscriptions, a few minor marks; near..... More
Violent Ward.
London: Harper Collins, 1993. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 305; [5], blank. Publisher's black hardcover cloth spine blocked in gilt and paper boards, illustrated dust-jacket priced at $23 to front flap. Page edges and spine gently toned else a crisp, clean, fine copy. A picaresque legal thriller..... More