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First edition with the all important secret dossier. dust jacket very good+ with a tiny chip at top of spine of about 5mm sq.also a couple of tiny nicks on d.j. book is very good++ with one previous owner signature.a very nice copy for the price. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Deighton Len : An Expensive Place to Die. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Deighton, Len : An Expensive Place to DieCape, 1967
The boards are a bit rubbed. Internally clean and tightly bound. The 'In Transit Docket' is present.. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Deighton, Len : An Expensive Place to Die. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. DEIGHTON**, LEN: : AN EXPENSIVE PLACE TO DIE.**LONDON.CAPE,1967. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,colour photographic collage by Raymond Hawkey; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners. Dw/dj spine/backstrip slightly sunned/faded as normal,with very miniscule and light chipping/
rubbing to both head+foot of same,and with minimal loss.Rear top corner lightly rubbed and a miniscule nick to top rear edge of dw/dj.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and aged with fore-edges less so and much brighter and cleaner; contents very bright,tight and clean.Includes original facsimile TOP SECRET wallet with all 10 original facsimile documents,laid loosely in; dealing with the events which take place just before the beginning of the story.
Described hard but fairly.UK 1st published a few days after it's US equivalent (PUTNAM).It was also the first of DEIGHTON's novels to be issued in a coloured dw/dj.The complete text of the 1st was also serialised prior to publication in four issues of PLAYBOY magazine,from Dec 1966 to March 1967.
Deighton's 5th novel featuring Harry Palmer,set in Paris,the title supposedly, coming from a remark credited to Oscar Wilde.
The birds flew around for nothing but the hell of it. [First lines . . .]
Operated by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt, the sex clinic on Paris's Avenue Foch attracts the attention of the agents of four world powers.Pornographic blackmail dossiers on influential politicians from both East and West are compiled at the clinic.Are these agents after Datt's taped and filmed dossiers,or is their purpose altogether more deadly than a trip to the blue movies. . . .?
The hedgehog would fly higher and stronger than any of the birds,if only he knew how. [. . . last words.]
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UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Protected dw/dj with minimal rubbing to head+foot dw/dj spine/backstrip,and slightly sunned as usual/normal.Top edge slightly aged, spotted.Complete with facsimile wallet of 'top secret' documents (10) in FINE condition,which relate to dealing with events which take place just before the beginning of the story.This book is the first of Deighton's novels issued in a coloured dw/dj - designed by Raymond Hawkey.UK 1st published a few days after it's US equivalent (PUTNAM).The complete text of the 1st was also serialised prior to publication in four issues of PLAYBOY magazine,from Dec 1966 to March 1967.
Deighton's 5th novel featuring Harry Palmer,set in Paris,the title supposedly, coming from a remark credited to Oscar Wilde.
The birds flew around for nothing but the hell of it. [First lines . . .]
Operated by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt, the sex clinic on Paris's Avenue Foch attracts the attention of the agents of four world powers.Pornographic blackmail dossiers on influential politicians from both East and West are compiled at the clinic.Are these agents after Datt's taped and filmed dossiers,or is their purpose altogether more deadly than a trip to the blue movies. . . .?
The hedgehog would fly higher and stronger than any of the birds,if only he knew how. [. . . last words.]
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** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free.
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A fine copy in a near fine d.w., lamination wear to extremities. Includes the dossier, complete, in fine state. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of DEIGHTON, Len : An Expensive Place to Die. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres d'occasion, used books, livres rares, fine bindings and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |